As other posters have pointed out, using mobile payments bypasses corrupt middlemen. Afghanistan has started paying rural police using mobiles, and some of the

As other posters have pointed out, using mobile payments bypasses corrupt middlemen. Afghanistan has started paying rural police using mobiles, and some of them are seeing "raises" >1/3 their salary. http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/m-paisa-ending-afghan-corruption-one-text-at-a-time/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/m-paisa-ending-afghan-corru...