平心而论，寻租和唯亲腐败在每个国家都或多或少地存在，但发展中国家比发达国家更普遍，资源富裕国和/或中央计划经济体比资本主义民主国家更普遍。
To be sure, rent-seeking and favor-dispensing corruption exist to some degree everywhere; but they are more widespread in developing than developed countries and in resource-rich and/or centrally planned economies than in capitalist democracies.