h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>"land repatriation" rather than kleptocracy<

Aren't they in this example the same thing? Giving land to yourself, your political allies, selling the foreign criminals and millionaires and the Chinesse government for fund that don't go to the people...

>Some critics (correctly) claim that corrupt governments (not even necessarily dictatorships) will invariably take the money meant for development and spend it on a fleet of new 4x4s and there's nothing anyone can actually do to stop them. Proponents argue that even though this is the case, some of the money inevitably finds its way through to where it's needed thanks to a trickle-down and, even though most of it is denied through corruption, its better than the nothing that would result otherwise.<

Not a pretty choice is it, take econimic actions that purpetuuate corruption and despotism or deny tem and wait for the people to that can afford guns to rise up against governmet that has been spending money for public service building a out of private army out of it's police force and armed forces.