A new altercation started between the former Mayor and Dupuis about tax collectors' wages and perks

These are large countries with huge economies, where conspiring and doling out small perks and favors is not very effective.

In paragraph 223, the Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation that it consistently record ex gratia payments to facilitate their review and to reduce the risk of recording inaccurate information under other expenditure international procurement .

The Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Charles Gyude Bryant, also directed all government agencies, with the exception of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs, to vacate the Freeport in Monrovia in order to eliminate the payment of tips and fees to the agents of several ministries so as to stabilize the prices of basic commodities.

To be sure, rent seeking and favor dispensing corruption exist to some degree everywhere but they are more widespread in developing than developed countries and in resource rich and or centrally planned economies than in capitalist democracies.