The amount of corruption that occurs in a government is hard to measure because:
A. its costs are mostly indirect and nearly impossible to measure.
B. it is illegal, and therefore hidden.
C. the benefits subtracted from the costs often go to a small number of people and distort the reality.
D. All of these are true.
B. it is illegal, and therefore hidden.
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