The thing is corruption is the first indicator of a country, city, town that will become extremely poor. This is evident in many countries ( including Western countries outside of the USA). First evidence is when people start to move out, and set businesses elsewhere. When they explain why, many will just say the corruption.
One could say that corruption killed Detroit. Others could say that the emergence of Japanese automobiles in America in the late 1970s killed Detroit. Others could say that greedy managements offshoring with the blessing of NAFTA killed Detroit. Others could say that union autoworkers refusal to make wage/benefit concessions killed Detroit. In reality, they are probably all partly correct.
That's a Glenn Beck and generally republican talking point. Even though I vehemently disagree with it, I will post it for completeness sake:
Nobody cares is the reason.Do you care about the killed Detroit?Neighbour?Relative?You more care like about what`s in your freezer.
American Automobile Manufacturers helped kill Detroit by relocating their manufacturing operations, but in the end, U.S. car manufacturers committed slow suicide . Am I the only one who remembers auto industry CEOs claiming year after year that "no one wants those 'little' cars" in the face of annually rising sales of those 'little' imported cars? -- cars that proved, more reliable, better designed and engineered. Advertising can carry you just so far. Failure to compete with a better product will wreck a business. In the end, you have to make something people want more than something else. And too, those bad decisions by U.S. Execs, like this one: http://www.economist.com/node/3473604, did not help.