[hedgetrimmer]

“For every single corrupt public servant there is a corrupt [multinational] business executive somewhere who is willing to pay a bribe,” responded one participant.

The United States included.

[Moonman62]

We aren't perfect, but the US government and American businesses are probably seen as the least corrupt in all the world.

[hedgetrimmer]

The issue of governance was not formally on the agenda and therefore got only a mention in a closing statement declaring a “need to build institutions to take on the challenge of change”.

Please note this comment, and then, see this one-- our State Department building a new governance system for the Western Hemisphere that includes us, but isn't based on the 'current US model":

He also emphasized that the "democracy we are talking about is not a U.S. model of democracy,"

But,

[The Inter-American Democratic] Charter can serve as an effective tool to "ward off political crises or impending challenges to constitutional order, there is still reluctance on the part of some countries to use it in this way."

[GSlob]

Well, were it not for the endemic corruption and other forms of baboonery, these markets would have been called not emerging but emerged. And the way the things are, it comes with territory.

[Torie]

The development of emerging market economies continues to be held back by corruption and poor governance

Shocking! Who knew?