D Deka wrote:
This is great. Measurement is the first step towards improvement. This quantification will help international lending insitutions to put pressure on GOI to start measures to eradicate bribery.Dilip-da:
Transperancy International has attempted to quantify "perceptions of corruption" across the world for quite some time. Check, for example:
http://www.gwdg.de/~uwvw/icr.htm
But it never tries to quantify the quantitative magnitude of corruption. There may be serious methodological problems here and I don't know what to make of the number reported without understanding how it was arrived at. Of course, we all have some idea about how serious the problem is at a qualitative level.
Somehow, I suspect the study does not focus on "big bribes" - politicians money - but rather on corruption by government officials who the surveyed average person interacts with.
Santanu.
