Corruption Perceptions Index 2013

The only one there that doesn't line up with my perceptions is Chile. I went there this time last year and their police and officials were nothing but transparent and professional. The fact that it isn't the same color as Canada must primarily be due to a general bias against South America as a whole.

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Post by randomafrican » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 2:58 PM UTC

May be I should download the brochure to learn more about the methodology but some of the countries at the bottom seem weird.

North Korea is last ? Is there even room for corruption in the North Korean public sector ? I imagine it being arbitrary and all sort of things but I wouldn't dare attempting to bribe a North Korean official.

Does Somalia even have a public sector ?

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Post by busterarm » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 3:00 PM UTC

throwaway_yy2Di wrote: post #3

mathgladiator wrote: post #2

Makes me want to move the denmark :)

One day, there will be a Danish startup on "Who's hiring".

You might have to wait a while. Denmark has a very strong "nobody ever got fired contracting IBM" business culture. There are one or two consultancies in Copenhagen that I'm aware of that my friends work at and could recommend. Most startups there seem to be design outfits. I'm told incorporating there is hard but didn't seem so to me from the requirements I read - you just need a lot of money available at the outset just to employ anyone (that's a positive, imo).

Anyway, there's starting to be some changes there - IBM missed a big contract or two with large clients to smaller outfits. Between that shift and the quality grads coming out of DTU, there may be some tech opportunities there if anyone starts investing money that way.

I would _love_ to go work over there but I doubt I could meet the requirements and I'm not lucky enough to have an EU citizenship.

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Post by theklub » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 3:01 PM UTC

3pt14159 wrote: post #4

The only one there that doesn't line up with my perceptions is Chile. I went there this time last year and their police and officials were nothing but transparent and professional. The fact that it isn't the same color as Canada must primarily be due to a general bias against South America as a whole.

Or that you were in a certain part of Chile that is run well.

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Post by nodata » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

randomafrican wrote: post #5

May be I should download the brochure to learn more about the methodology but some of the countries at the bottom seem weird. North Korea is last ? Is there even room for corruption in the North Korean public sector ? I imagine it being arbitrary and all sort of things but I wouldn't dare attempting to bribe a North Korean official. Does Somalia even have a public sector ?

It's a list of perceived corruption, not of corruption.

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Post by randomafrican » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

3pt14159 wrote: post #4

The only one there that doesn't line up with my perceptions is Chile. I went there this time last year and their police and officials were nothing but transparent and professional. The fact that it isn't the same color as Canada must primarily be due to a general bias against South America as a whole.

Or may be things are just uneven..

While officials in touch with foreigners in Santiago are clean, it could be that it's less the case at the local BMV in remote town..

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Post by randomafrican » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 3:04 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #8

randomafrican wrote: post #5

May be I should download the brochure to learn more about the methodology but some of the countries at the bottom seem weird. North Korea is last ? Is there even room for corruption in the North Korean public sector ? I imagine it being arbitrary and all sort of things but I wouldn't dare attempting to bribe a North Korean official. Does Somalia even have a public sector ?

It's a list of perceived corruption, not of corruption.

I know that(I've lived in countries that were at the time last on the list).

But did they survey North Koreans to discuss said perception ? Is "corrupt" really an equivalent of "bad and arbitrary and awfully run" ?

To me those are two different things.