The middle classes turned bitter and spoke out - for more press freedom and individual rights and against chronic corruption.
Pakistan's new military ruler is promising to give the people what they want - an end to the country's chronic corruption.
The problems of New Jersey are a decidedly different kettle of fish - from chronic political corruption to runaway property taxes.
The 44-year-old former lieutenant colonel has promised a revolution to clean up the Government's chronic corruption.
Pele said that in his many years of travel, the most frequent question he has been asked is how Brazil is going to overcome its chronic corruption.
By contrast, President Hu Jintao has identified chronic corruption as the biggest challenge facing China, and government officials tend to have fairly narrow expertise in managing asset portfolios.
Foreign investment from the West, slow because of Turkey's chronic corruption, has picked up.
It is little wonder, really, given the high levels of poverty and social inequality that persist from Mexico to Argentina, coupled with chronic official corruption.
Just inflating the euro and granting absolution will not solve the chronic corruption in Italy and some mediterranean countries.
But all the emerging markets suffer from chronic corruption.