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Editorial: Ranking high in bribery

12/15/2008
On some rankings it’s best to score near the bottom. So it is with assessments by Transparency International (TI), the anticorruption group, of the tendency of industries to pay bribes. On two new rankings related to TI’s Bribe Payer’s Index for 2008, the oil and gas business ranks near the top.The survey evaluates 22 of the world’s wealthiest exporting countries based on the likelihood that companies from them pay bribes abroad. It comes from observations of 2,742 senior business executives from companies in 26 countries, selected according to the size of their imports and inflows of foreign direct investment. This year the survey also produced two evaluations of ...
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