For one thing, in its attempt at simplification, the definition misses out a great deal of the complexity, multifacetedness, and configurations of corruption in the real world. Secondly, by narrowing the idea of corruption so that it applies only to the public sector and to bribe-taking politicians and other public officials, it seriously underplays the supply side of corruption, that is, the active and often determinative role national and international business corporations, the private sector, and the black economy play in the exponential increase in corruption among politicians,
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