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To: TobagoJack who wrote (19146)	5/19/2002 4:18:17 AM
From: LKO	Respond to of 74559

<<Transparency International ... transparency.org >> Neat site. I see Trinidad beats Bangladesh, but is not high. Both countries are full of ... oops, too un-PC:0) Err..you have the winners/losers backwards <G>. Trinidad is not even close at 31. Bangladesh in winning place (91) has a disclaimer at the bottom of that page that says in many long winded ways that data is suspect. So your other favorite Nigeria is the real winner. What is funny is that the scale is 0 to 10 and these winners have managed to get...well negative numbers as scores !!! The 2002 data comes in June and then we shall see who is really winning - Bangla Desh or Nigeria<G> They have a bribe-payers index also announced recently which is a different story (poor can be bribe-receiving corrupt, but to be bribe-payer-corrupt, you need to have the $$$). That has the 2002 numbers already and the winners are... "Domestic Companies" and Russia. transparency.org That seems to suggest we should be investing in "Domestic companies" and Russia <G> LKO