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And that's a fine thing to measure, but don't call it "corruption". It does a disservice to us in fundamentally corrupt yet business-friendly countries.
If you're a cynic then the key goes from cheap (dark colored countries) to expensive (lighter colored countries) corruption.
Italy seems to be an outlier in this respect: faring worse than Portugal, Spain and Turkey. Chile and Uruguay seem to be perceived as less corrupt as their GDP per capita would lead you to think. I think we need a scatterplot! With flags: http://imgur.com/Ld0bXTO With names: http://imgur.com/vX7dsTV
It seems that things have been getting better lately, or maybe the perception of corruption in Italy was overblown.
Who knows?
Anyway, with this in mind, I'd take the color of Italy as a positive sign, namely that it is not too dark, on its way to yellow bliss.
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.
A bias against South America by the people who are reporting their perceptions of corruption in their own countries?
Elected Mexican president spent 12 times above the limit!:
Limit: 26 million
Spent: USD $460 million!
As others here have noted, this doesn't seem to be measuring corruption. Instead, and after reading their meager "methodology" (we compile these results from "international elite"), it appears that what this is measuring instead is a country's business friendliness. And that's a fine thing to measure, but don't call it "corruption". It does a disservice to us in fundamentally corrupt yet business-friendly countries.
Debate the semantics of the word "corruption" as much as you want, but the index is found to have a strong correlation with black market activity and an "overabundance of regulation or unnecessary restriction of business activity". [1]
That doesn't sound like the countries are business friendly to me.
[1] http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1013882225402
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If you are looking for more established companies I would suggest LEGO [1] and Danfoss [2]. You can find many positions on their sites that could be interesting for HN crowd. [1] http://jobs.lego.com/en-us/searchpage [2] http://jobs.danfoss.com/jobs/ And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know. So keep that in mind.
And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know. For startups, no. There's as large an open source scene here as anywhere else. Ruby on Rails was started by a Dane (David Heinemeier Hansson), as was PHP, C++, and the V8 JavaScript engine used in Node.
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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.
Makes me want to move the denmark :)
On a totally unrelated note, if there is any HNer in the Århus area, I could totally agree to a get-together.
If you're a cynic then the key goes from cheap (dark colored countries) to expensive (lighter colored countries) corruption.
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And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know. For startups, no. There's as large an open source scene here as anywhere else. Ruby on Rails was started by a Dane (David Heinemeier Hansson), as was PHP, C++, and the V8 JavaScript engine used in Node.
IIRC, RedHat has a presence in Copenhagen. On the other hand, from what I understand, the government policy about open source is best summarized as "the less the better".