Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms
Over centuries, human society has achieved remarkable progress. Just an example: only 3-4 centuries ago people went for fun to public executions, as they go now to football matches! Now death sentence is only practiced in very few countries. We have become more humane, more civilized, even more rational, but are we also acting more responsibly and ethically?
Unfortunately, there is no simple, affirmative answer to this question. Namely, we are systematically destroying our planet, and with very few exceptions, corruption is still practiced in many domains of public life. In 2004 Daniel Kaufmann, Global Governance Director of the World Bank Institute, estimated the volume of corruption related to public procurement was about 1 trillion USD, and nowadays it could be double. Till rather recently some economists have even publicly defended this practice as an unavoidable aspect of doing business, while international bribing in