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Global Corruption Barometer 2009: people's experience and perception about corruption

Submitted by Alfredo on Thu, 2009-06-04 13:52

Transparency International released its 2009 Global Corruption Barometer.   As opposed to TI's expert opinion survey -the Corruption Perception Index-, the Barometer is a public opinion survey that captures perceptions and experiences of corruption of more than 73,000 people in 69 countries.

Some of the corruption issues addressed by the survey are: perception of corruption in the private sector, petty bribery in general and in different services, perception of most corruption institutions/sectors, corruption denunciation and use of complaint mechanisms, and perception of governments' effectiveness in the fight against corruption.

Among the main results in this year's survey are: