The data published by Transparency International (TI) shows that there are marked variations in perception of corruption between developed and developing countries. Their data have shown that the developed countries are found to be relatively free from corruption, at least when compared with the less developed countries (Box 2.1). Regarding the causes of corruption TI (2011) says: “… corruption thrives where temptation coexists with permissiveness. Where institutional checks on power are missing, where decision making remains obscure, where civil society is thin on the ground, where great inequalities in the distribution of wealth condemn people to live in poverty, which is where corrupt practices flourish. It cannot be stressed enough that corruption is alive and well even where political, economic, legal and social institutions are well entrenched.”