A few days back there was a short flurry of postings about government corruption in India, the gist of which was that the only way things got done there was by greasing the wheel.
Earlier today I unfortunately got involved in a short p*****g match with some unnamed fine fellows (dougjn, you know who they are) of an unmentioned political persuasion about the relative evils of the "Clintanista's" (their term) and previous administrations. I mentioned Watergate as a more serious example, which they deemed irrelevant due to its "ancient history" status.
Anyway, I decided to do some research on that and inadvertantly came up with confirmation of the relative state of Indian corruption. The Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, studies this and has published its work.
They ranked 41 countries in relative order of corruption with "10" being squeaky-clean and "0" being where transactions routinely involve kickbacks, extortion, etc.
#41, the worst (the only "1") was Indonesia.
#40, China, scored a "2".
India was #35 with a "2".
#15, The United States, scored a "7".
#5, Canada, scored an "8".
Mqurice Winn will be happy to know New Zealand was #1 with a bullet (metaphorically speaking) scoring "9", beating regional neighbor Australia's #7 ranked score of "8".
A more complete summary of the report can be found at:
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