Painting Africa with the Corruptor's brush

BusinessinAfrica reports on generalizations about corruption regarding the continent:

It does not take advanced training in economics to know that corruption is an inefficient method of allocating resources that also creates market uncertainty galore he says(John Mukum Mbaku). But corruption also has certain positive benefits. Corrupt practices are flexible and highly responsive to an uncertain political landscape and an often ossified bureaucratic structure. Corruption also bows to the reality that even mid-level public servants are supporting numerous extended family members, and that civil service salaries are inadequate to satisfy the many demands on a salaried official...If Africa is to have a well-functioning public sector, there needs to be a paradigm shift in how to analyse and build state capacity...“Specifically, African governments and their partners should move from a narrow focus on organisational, technocratic, and public management approaches to a broader perspective that incorporates both the political dynamics and the institutional rules of the game within which public organisations operate.”