Sentences with phrase «by kleptocrats»

Africa's plight, for example, can largely be attributed to theft by kleptocrats with the complicity of major international companies.

Now we are ruled with impunity by kleptocrats because Christianity made Africa the dumping ground for the feudal and infallible systems that the European Enlightenment and American Revolution discarded.

Not exact matches

What's happened here by Mr. Paulson of Goldman Sachs is almost a mirror image of what the other Goldman Sachs» Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin did in Russia: he's creating and endowing a class of kleptocrats by giving them liquid treasury securities in exchange for basically worthless junk.

The so - called boom that ensued was a stock - market bubble created by channeling wage withholding into shares of the companies taken over by Chile's kleptocrats.

In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also household consumption.

Of course, those perks for the elite were nothing compared to the lavish lifestyle lived by UN (including IPCC) kleptocrats.