and corruption control (see Chart 1). Latin America’s average score is below the world median in all governance indicators except voice and accountability, which barely tops the median. It rates ...

The 2000 Corruption Perceptions Index covers 90 countries, compared to 99 last year. Some countries had to be dropped because there was insufficient 1998-2000 data. For example, some of the surveys ...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and businesspeople. The 2022 CPI analyses the ...

This material is edited and partly redrafted for a general readership. This Economic Issues pamphlet draws on material originally contained in IMF Working Paper 97/139, "Corruption, Public Investment, ...