Kleptocracy definition: a government where officials are politically corrupt and financially self-interested Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples. countable, uncountable a form of government in which the leaders use their power to steal money and resources from the country that they rule The state apparatus has become a kleptocracy, with leaders using power for personal enrichment. The president faces allegations of corruption and kleptocracy.
‘Then the country's emergent civil society collapsed beneath post-communist repression and the kleptocracy of regional robber barons.’
‘It is ruled by a corrupt kleptocracy of aristocrats who use their control of state monopolies and even the tax system to enrich themselves at the public's expense.’
‘The antidote to kleptocracy is the age-old story of democratic struggle.’
‘But how many billions in foreign aid have been wasted over the decades due to the grandiose projects and corruption of dictatorships and kleptocracies?’
‘But, as we have seen with Russia, if the ethical basis of free markets degenerates sufficiently, all that we have left is a form of kleptocracy.’
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