{"id":2033,"date":"2013-12-03T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2013-12-03T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:31:09","slug":"you-are-twice-as-likely-to-pay-a-bribe-if-you-live-in-a-poor-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/you-are-twice-as-likely-to-pay-a-bribe-if-you-live-in-a-poor-country\/","title":{"rendered":"You are twice as likely to pay a bribe if you live in a poor country"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s a simple summary of Transparency International’s 2013\u00a0 Corruption Perceptions Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A big headline this year was the drop in Spain’s ranking<\/a> because of a number of public scandals.\u00a0 But do not imagine that corruption in Spain has actually gone up or down, just because perception has changed.\u00a0 Actual corruption is pretty much the same as it was last year.<\/p>\n

It has always been striking that the perception of corruption\u00a0 has been high in Asia and low in Europe, while but on the ground experience suggests Ireland is more corrupt than Thailand.\u00a0 I suppose people expect an emerging economy to be corrupt and expect that Ireland is honest.\u00a0 In fact, corruption in Ireland is covered over, ignored or simply accepted because people are too nice.\u00a0 We rarely own up to the crooked politicians and business owners, and we let most of them off the hook.\u00a0 That is a shame for us all.<\/p>\n

In general, corruption around the world is waning, as it must.\u00a0 Few benefit from crooked dealings, while most of us suffer.\u00a0 It is unfortunate that the institutional approach to reducing corruption is with bureaucracy rather than education and enlightened morality, because rules increase transaction costs, reduce flexibility and must inevitably be changed to adapt to new circumstances.<\/p>\n

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That’s a simple summary of Transparency International’s 2013\u00a0 Corruption Perceptions Index. A big headline this year was the drop in Spain’s ranking because of a number of public scandals.\u00a0 But do not imagine that corruption in Spain has actually gone up or down, just because perception has changed.\u00a0 Actual corruption is pretty much the same …
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