Stationery was donated.

And less than 1 out of 10 receive unemployment benefit or other social benefits.

They were paying in order to skip the queue, the long queue.

The new venture was financed by a group of entrepreneurs.

Basically, kickbacks.

45 kilowatts of panels on the roof.

Daniel Häni For a company, taxes always mean costs.

That percentage, by the way, is about the same in the U.S. and Germany and France.

In Germany, we have a system where you are not allowed to bribe a civil servant, but you are allowed to bribe a deputy.

Maybe with money we could bribe them. I do, I do.

The target market is as tempting as it can get.

The bribery scandal created a backlash overseas.

According to World Bank estimate, one trillion dollars is paid in bribes every year, worsening the condition of the already worse off.

Just a little something to cover my expenses.

I'd think you were trying a Little smalltime bribery.

He disdained bribery.

But it's all we can afford.

Lobbyists for the bill funneled bribes into a campaign fund.

On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free.

Roughly half of the entire GDP goes to the state in the form of taxes.

He admitted he had taken bribes.

that it would be impossible for them to be bribed if they worked in Germany, in a German administration, just as I am convinced that if you put German officials from the German administration in those holes, they would be bribed just the same.

The scoop was quite a very simple story.

The reason was that the members of the World Bank thought that foreign bribery was okay, including Germany.

We made it all the way to the border of Laos.

Spanish chef accused of cheating.

I've tried bribes, I've tried gifts. I even sent him some pet oxen.

The bribery came to light.

The merchant bribed the politician.

This is what we teach in the night schools.

We've had economic analysis pointing out that, not only can we afford it, it's cheaper to act early.

He refused to take the bribe.

Police officers were taking bribes from hawkers who were hawking on the streets.

And he says, I was just thinking that maybe we could take care of it here in Fargo, which everyone, including the audience, interprets as a veiled bribe.

The same trash site is feeding more than 30 families.

And now all of a sudden, the banks dried up, liquidity is gone, people can't borrow money, and you have a demand shock.

He only made an introduction to the guy who made the bribe

The officer was just sitting on it and was demanding around 3,000 rupees in bribes.

For your hundred dollars, you get between one and three extra years of education.

I hear the governor's been getting money under the table from tobacco companies.

And in a more subtle way, I think, this works for all of the veiled speech acts involving plausible deniability the bribes, threats, propositions, solicitations and so on.

And you can think of it in terms of a game theoretic payoff matrix.

This is what is called a 'present' in some countries and 'bribery' in others.

By the third time, in all 42 cases, we have achieved success.

Yet the market forces around the world have not yet thrown up a service where you can call in, pay a fee, and fight the demand for a bribe.