Reply #10: US businesses are pretty clean i this area, overall

[naaman fletcher]

I can tell you that most fortune 500 companies have fairly strong programs for Foreign Anti-Corruption Act policies. There are still violations, but the problem is that US companies are competing against European ones where basically bribery is widespread. French and Italian businesses continue to conduct business in the third world through bribery.

As to who is at fault? Well, who is at fault, the briber or the bribee? The African nations are just as at fault, as there is widespread corruption and gov't officials see their stay in gov't as a chance to sock away fat amounts of money.