Corruption per country

[Jarno]

Transparency International - the global coalition against corruption

you can see the corruption index per country when you put your mouse over it.

interesting results...

[Trevor]

I'm gonna guess that Croatia is one of the european leaders.

Am gonna check.

[717495]

Somalia.

[krieger]

The results were...



Predictable.

[The Exception]

USA is ranked 22 with a score of 7.1
It would be interesting to see where we are in ten years. I have feeling we're going downhill.

[FDG]

Nothing new under the sun.

[Skeptic]

The results were...

*yuri*
Predictable.

lmfao memories.

I can tell which western nations funded this research...

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A conspiracy is born.

[xerx]

Moved to politics.

[Capitalist Pig]

lmfao memories.

Hehe, I still play Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge. Mostly skirmish, though, against AI opponents. I can't find any people to play

[Marie84]

Nothing really shocking here; all of these countries are in war or/and struggling with the basic necessities for survival. The desire for morality and social codes generally gets thrown out the window when you're reduced to that sort of primitive state
Even in developed countries most volatile crimes take place in areas comprised of dense poverty

[FDG]

Nothing really shocking here; all of these countries are in war or/and struggling with the basic necessities for survival. The desire for morality and social codes generally gets thrown out the window when you're reduced to that sort of primitive state
Even in developed countries most volatile crimes take place in areas comprised of dense poverty

I'm pretty sure Italy is a big sticking sore spot on, we're not particularly poor, not primitive, yet our ranking is quite high (or low, depends on how you define the scale). Croatia isn't very poor or primitive either, neither is Greece really, even though perhaps medias like to depict them as such.

[Marie84]

I'm pretty sure Italy is a big sticking sore spot on, we're not particularly poor, not primitive, yet our ranking is quite high (or low, depends on how you define the scale). Croatia isn't very poor or primitive either, neither is Greece really, even though perhaps medias like to depict them as such.

hmmm I never really thought about that. Being from the area, do you think this may have to do with crime hierarchies like the mafia?

[Simon Ssmall]

hmmm I never really thought about that. Being from the area, do you think this may have to do with crime hierarchies like the mafia?

Im also curious about it. Its probably how their society is structured in general, things like mafia is more of a side-effect. Read not too long ago a few articles about how young people cant find opprotunities and why:
Italy's Job Crisis: Why Young Italians Are Leaving - TIME. However Im reall interested what FDG will have to say about it.

[FDG]

Im also curious about it. Its probably how their society is structured in general, things like mafia is more of a side-effect. Read not too long ago a few articles about how young people cant find opprotunities and why:
Italy's Job Crisis: Why Young Italians Are Leaving - TIME. However Im reall interested what FDG will have to say about it.

Well, about corruption: most people never "see" corruption operating in their every-day life - you don't bribe policemen, local politicians etc.. It's limited to the highest level govt officials / bankers / industrials. Yet the volume of money which is connected to corruption-laden businesses is extremely high, which means that they often end up being directed by not necessarily the most "efficient" company, but rather the one that bribed the govt the most.

About young people leaving: it's a complicated picture. Compared to the rest of the EU, a young university graduate has no guarantee of finding a relatively nice job, even if he studied a complicated subject (say, physics). Yet there's still a large amount of well-paid jobs available, but you need to be...lucky and a bit shrewd. Companies will offer you a low salary, and if you don't argue back, you'll end up being underpaid. If you're not "shrewd", you might end up at 30 with a meager salary, even if you're really talented. This in northern Italy, which is economically still "ok". Some people are lured by higher nominal salaries quoted in places like Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc - yet they often find out that, taking into account the cost of living & taxes, there isn't a real difference.

In southern italy there's an extremely large black economy. If you just look at GDP figures, you'd think southern Italy is like Somalia. Yet if you travel there and exclude Neaples, everything is pretty much fine, roads are OK, houses aren't crumbling, so IDK. Pretty bad place to be an ambitious young person, though, because the black economy is rarely connected to technologically advanced sectors.

I wouldn't consider the interviews in that TIME article as something "realistic". Those people are living in Shanghai and Dubai. I don't know if they've noticed, but they're both living in dictatorships where an extremely large % of the population doesn't have access to basic education, health care, food, etc. (Dubai less so, but it's still far from being "civil") so perhaps they do have a good job which satisfies their strong ambition, yet I can't see how such a scenario could be considered as a "role model".

Then there's Berlusconi, which is seriously starting to become a real hindrance. Our parliament members spend all their time debating and fighting on laws connected to the judicial system, basically because B. is always trying to pass laws which will cancel/prescribe his crimes. Which means they're not spending any time thinking about laws that, say, favor innovation / correct investments / etc...typical exame: we have an extremely promising renewable-energy project, KiteGen: Kitegen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia yet nobody cares, actually an oil lobby managed to destroy their first attempt at implementation.

[Words]

I don't think Silvio Berlusconi helps Silvio Berlusconi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia