Bangladesh is no longer the most corrupt country in the world!!!. Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Guinea, Iraq, Myanmar and Haiti are tops. Boy, and I am proud to be an American, after all, we helped Iraq attain the status of being the 3rd most corrupt nation in the world! Seeing as how millions have died in the Congo since 1996, methinks we need another intervention, and perhaps we help Congo ascend the ranks a bit? Who knows, can't you imagine a scenario 5 years down the road when Americans troops have to stand down and call off a search for their cannibalized comrades so that our puppet "president" could get some "creds" from the rebel leaders he had to placate?
Also, here are the least corrupt nations:
Finland
Iceland
New Zeland
Denmark
Singapore
Sweden
Switzerland
Norway
Australia
The Netherlands
Hm...me thinks there is a Eurocentric bias here, no? What must be white is right!
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Looks to me like the 'least corrupt' list is to some degree a list of states with economically authoritarian governments, where abuse of power is institutionalized in the law instead of being in the hands of law-breaking individuals. I can't believe anyone could shop for groceries in Denmark, for instance, without thinking that there's something rotten about the pricing and selection.
Agree with mjb, Singapore is the prime model for how a government can "lawfully" abuse power.
And the Finnish are simply occupied with imbibing so much "Pohjan Poika 59" that they either don't notice the corruption or they're not in any condition to be corrupt (or both)! ;)
Relativity and definition of corruption are the keys here. In the middle-east, corruption has nothing to do with money hanling but with social behavioural expectations (in a country with no tax, public servant do have to round up their income, don't they?). Lobbiing laws in the US would send most lobbies and politicians in jail by european standards. And the global situation with poverty increasing in spite of best-ever economical performances looks like plain corruption to me.
Abuse of power institutionalized? Gee, no need to notice you write this with a z instead of s to I know where you are from, hey!