In Bangalore, India, a Cuddle With Your Baby Requires a Bribe - New York Times

In Bangalore, India, a Cuddle With Your Baby Requires a Bribe - New York Times: "Such petty bribery acts as a hidden regressive tax, according to research financed by the World Bank Institute, the bank's educational and research arm. In Zambia, for example, poor people paid 17 percent of their incomes in bribes for medical care, while the middle class paid only 3 percent. The comparable figures for Paraguay were 7 percent for the poor and only 1 percent for the middle class."