Research Paper on:
Third World Countries and Corruption

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trait and, by extension, it is an individual who is corrupt. The power to be ethical or unethical lies within every individual. The actual choice belongs to that individual and  nobody else. Between the debates on foreign developmental aid, international health care concerns, exploitation of natural resources, and ethnic divisions and hatreds, it often appears that the nations of the  Third World are, at the core, corrupt. Many of these issues have come to the foreground of the western worlds consciousness due to the past years growing fears about terrorism  and the types of societies in which terrorism thrives. The widespread problem of corruption in most Third World countries does not exist because the people of the worlds least developed  nations are inherently corrupt. There is almost a stereotype image in the industrialized world of business leaders, government officials, and politicians, et al, in the Third World as being almost  completely corrupt. However, it should also be noted that according to Transparency International (TI), an independent group that follows the degrees of government employee corruption worldwide, the bureaucratic officials  of the nations of the former Soviet bloc, Asia, Latin America and Africa are the least trustworthy and most susceptible to bribes (Internet source). Even those nations which seem to  receive the greatest amount of assistance from their international "friends" in the industrialized world are often proven to be the most thoroughly impoverished. All too often, corrupt leaders find ways  to transfer the financial resources received by their nations to off-shore accounts of their own, or to improve their own standard of living rather than investing such funds in commercial  or industrial enterprises, much less social welfare, within their own nation. The Central American Example -- "Strong Men" and Boundaries International borders in Central America have been the