Graft around the world
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 12:03AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Citation Post, Core/Gap map

Pic here

Use the reference link to get to a PDF file that captures a large and complex graphic produced by Transparency International for Bloomberg BusinessWeek.  It's all very cats-and-dogs in presentation style, so I summarize here.

Factoid: Wonder why Greece has financial problems?  Well, the average bribes paid per household in 2009 amounted to $1700, beating fairly corrupt Russia by a grand ($776) and backward Afghanistan by far more ($160).

Comparing countries by percentage of households that said they paid a bribe in last 12 months:

Per my Core-Gap map:  best seem furthest from Gap, middling are those on Seam, worst are deep inside Gap.

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