SINGAPORE - Here is a table of the corruption scores of 13 Asian economies, as seen in a survey of businessmen by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) and released Tuesday.
On a scale of zero to ten, zero is the best possible score.
In brackets are the scores last year.
1: Singapore, 1.20 (1.30)
2: Hong Kong, 1.87 (3.13)
3: Japan, 2.10 (3.01)
4: Macau, 5.11 (4.78)
5: Taiwan, 6.23 (5.91)
6: Malaysia, 6.25 (6.13)
7: China, 6.29 (7.58)
8: South Korea, 6.3 (5.44)
9: India, 6.67 (6.76)
10: Vietnam 7.54 (7.91)
11=: Indonesia, 8.03 (8.16), Thailand, 8.03 (7.64)
13: Philippines, 9.40 (7.80)
Agence France-Presse
I am actually surprised that it is ranked so poorly, especially in relation to some others on that list. I'll have to check out the website.
As a disclaimer: I've paid two bribes in my life, both driving violations, which I didn't think I was guilty of. And I only paid because I didn't have time to go to the police station.
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