Let me disagree. Corruption is corruption but not cooperation. The same as cancer is a decease but not your new living form. The “bribery game” is bad corruption model because corruption often occurs when you don’t have a choice and you have to accept the corruption risk (which can cost you infinite money). “The public pool is multiplied and divided equally among the players” – they modeled Denmark but not Kenya to learn corruption, didn’t they? “Corruption is largely inevitable” – they should learn about blockchain.
Lastly, I grown up in corrupt country (Russia) and I do not only think that bribes are acceptable but also think that anyone who does this should donate the same money to anticorruption agencies to treat this disease.
Anticorruption agencies can essentialy be neutered by corrupt leadership. They're subject to public funding. This is what happens as we speak in Eastern Europe (notably Poland and Romania). Bad economic conditions, lack of infrastructure and education only make it worse. This is why the Marshall Plan did wonders to post-war GDR. And this is why halting EU funds to corrupt Eastern Europe states will only make matters worse and reutrn these countries 90s cleptocracies.
