Reports released by international and domestic organizations have shown Egypt to be among the top corrupt nations on earth. However shocking this may sound, bribing civil servants has become the norm in Egypt.

In its Global Corruption report 2009, Transparency International attributes Egypt’s limited ability to fight corruption to the lack or outright absence of accountability of public executives, the limited freedom of access to information, and inefficient tools to monitor budget allocations. As for the public sector, it is riddled with corruption given the plethora of loopholes in the regulations that govern it.