Because the laws that applied to the proclamation
The correct answer is <span>not having FCPA-type legislation institutionalized and enforced in every country.
Corruption laws are very difficult to implement because very often nobody really adheres to them in developing countries that have just implemented them since they are used to a system that used to exist before them. In addition, corrupt officials like receiving gifts or money for their services so they often do it even if it's illegal.</span>
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Colonial nations are not mere offshoots of the
nations that gave birth to them. The geography, ecology, history of the continent forged them as original identities, like it did for the indigenous when they came millenia ago. To remove them from this context is to remove them from what made their identities in the first place. It's to such a point you can see very similar behaviours and interests in some circumstances. For example, both indigenous and allogenous populations try to lobby to keep seal-hunting going, because it's their way of life since centuries.