12:03AM
Graft around the world
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 12:03AM 
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:
- Canada and US 2%
- Turkey 2%
- UK 3%
- Colombia 8%
- Thailand 11%
- Kosovo 13%
- Lebanon 14%
- Nigeria 17%
- Pakistan 18%
- Greece 18%
- Serbia 20%
- Ukraine 21%
- Venezuela 28%
- Indonesia 29%
- Bolivia 30%
- Lithuania 30%
- Russia 31%
- Kenya 37%
- Iraq 44%
- Azerbaijan 46%
- Uganda 55%
Per my Core-Gap map: best seem furthest from Gap, middling are those on Seam, worst are deep inside Gap.
Reader Comments (1)
Curious about these amounts as a fraction of GDP. Greece is richer than Afghanistan, but is a Greek family being pinched for $1700 worse off than an Afghan family who ponies up $160? On the road and can't dig up the GDPs for myself.