With 93 percent of retirees getting disability compensation, a New York railroad is under investigation for abuse of the benefits system — further evidence that complex, institutionalized corruption schemes are not restricted to the developing world. The New York state’s attorney general is investigating the inordinately high number of former Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)…
Transparency International Bangladesh takes issue with TI’s own index, pointing out that “gains” in Bangladesh’s performance being reported by the media are in fact quirks of methodology, not actual results. After this coverage declaring “Bangladesh gains 3 places in CPI 2008” the local TI chapter fired off a response, pointing out that methodology and new…
Transparency International’s annual index of third-party corruption survey data is released today. We discuss this Index and its critics at length in our recently published A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption. Via email: From: Conrad ZellmannSubject: Release: TI Corruption Perceptions Index 2008 Dear Friends, I am writing to let you know that Transparency International has…