Measuring corruption

With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing.

The size of corporations and their wealth relative to nations provides the resources for corrupt practices.

The liberalization of international financial markets makes transferring and hiding the proceeds of corruption easier.

Moves towards privatization in East and West are providing once-only incentives for corruption on an unprecedented scale, as officials not only deal with the income of the state, but with its assets as well.

In this book, Transparency International's (TI) world-renowned 'Corruption Perception Index' (CPI) and 'Bribery Perception Index' (BPI) are explained and examined by a group of experts.