From Foreign Policy Passport:If you were thinking the place Vladimir Putin calls home, you chose wisely, tovarisch. Russia topped the list of countries whose companies are most likely to pay bribes when doing business abroad. China and Mexico took the silver and bronze. India, dropping from first in the 2006 survey, took fourth followed by Brazil and Italy.
Transparency International, a worldwide coalition dedicated to fighting global corruption, based its 2008 Bribe Payers Index (BPI) on interviews with 2,742 senior business executives from companies "selected on the size of their imports and inflows of foreign direct investment."
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My Comment: I live in Canada, and was surprised to notice that Canada was near the bottom of the list. Cough .... cough .... I will disagree with Canada's ranking. I have done quite a few Government contracts in my life, and I can say that returned favors were always .... I repeat .... always expected.