Corruption in Egypt
Corruption in Egypt
“Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery” (Oxforddictionaries.com) is one out of the many definitions that define corruption. Corruption is something that takes place almost every day anywhere around the world, but nothing surpasses the level corruption that has been taking place over decades in Egypt. Corruption in Egypt has reached a point were as locals of the country define corruption “Egypt”. This crime against the county has been taking place over two decades and a half, the period of the old regime which was ex President Mubarak’s reined up and until today. It wasn’t until Mubarak’s regime that corruption has reached an all time high. In 2010, Transparency International assed the level of perceived corruption in Egypt from business people and country analysts, to have given Egypt a CPI (Corruption Perception Index) of 3.1, on scale 10 being a very clean society with almost no corruption, which in the authors opinion will never exist, and 0 being a highly corrupted country (TransparencyInternational, 2010). Corruption in Egypt is found everywhere from public and governmental sectors and illegal and negative actions that create corruption involve: health, education, unemployment, culture, media and bribery, business corruption, financial distribution issues, and many more, all the way to people’s or citizen’s mindsets. The social classes that mostly feel and witness the effects of the extreme cases of corruption in Egypt are the low class society or the poor that live under the poverty line. Poverty in Egypt is the most growing problem that keeps on increasing daily due to the effects of corruption especially in rural and urban areas. The less fortunate in Egypt live under the poverty line. The poverty line or poverty threshold is the Standard family income threshold (set by each state and revised occasionally) below which the family is officially classified as poor and entitled to welfare
“Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery” (Oxforddictionaries.com) is one out of the many definitions that define corruption. Corruption is something that takes place almost every day anywhere around the world, but nothing surpasses the level corruption that has been taking place over decades in Egypt. Corruption in Egypt has reached a point were as locals of the country define corruption “Egypt”. This crime against the county has been taking place over two decades and a half, the period of the old regime which was ex President Mubarak’s reined up and until today. It wasn’t until Mubarak’s regime that corruption has reached an all time high. In 2010, Transparency International assed the level of perceived corruption in Egypt from business people and country analysts, to have given Egypt a CPI (Corruption Perception Index) of 3.1, on scale 10 being a very clean society with almost no corruption, which in the authors opinion will never exist, and 0 being a highly corrupted country (TransparencyInternational, 2010). Corruption in Egypt is found everywhere from public and governmental sectors and illegal and negative actions that create corruption involve: health, education, unemployment, culture, media and bribery, business corruption, financial distribution issues, and many more, all the way to people’s or citizen’s mindsets. The social classes that mostly feel and witness the effects of the extreme cases of corruption in Egypt are the low class society or the poor that live under the poverty line. Poverty in Egypt is the most growing problem that keeps on increasing daily due to the effects of corruption especially in rural and urban areas. The less fortunate in Egypt live under the poverty line. The poverty line or poverty threshold is the Standard family income threshold (set by each state and revised occasionally) below which the family is officially classified as poor and entitled to welfare