Corruption

Corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. In economy  corruption is payment for services or material which the recipient is not due, under law. This may be called bribery, kickback, or, in the Middle East, baksheesh. In government it is when an elected representative makes decisions that are influenced by vested interest rather than their own personal or party ideological beliefs. Although corruption is often viewed as illegal, there is an evolving concept of legal corruption, as developed by Daniel Kaufman and Pedro Vicente. but which are aimed at private gain  rather than benefiting all the people of a country or other administrative unit.