The impact on governance is all too predictable. In 2011, Transparency International s corruption perception index ranked Russia 143rd out 182 countries, on a par with Nigeria, and 182nd out of 210 for control of corruption, one of the World Bank s worldwide governance indicators. nbsp Regarding the rule of law, there has been only minimal improvement, with Russia ranked 156th.

Indeed, international measures of graft show that the authorities may be reaching a stalemate or even retreating in the fight. Transparency International s Corruption Perception Index, the most widely used benchmark to gauge businessmen s and experts beliefs about the extent of corruption in various countries, ranked China 78th out of 158 countries in 2005 not much improvement from 2000.

The impact on governance is all too predictable. In 2011, Transparency International s corruption perception index ranked Russia 143rd out 182 countries, on a par with Nigeria, and 182nd out of 210 for control of corruption, one of the World Bank s worldwide governance indicators. Regarding the rule of law, there has been only minimal improvement, with Russia ranked 156th.

Indeed, among the World Bank s six Governance Indicators, China s scores on the Control of Corruption index have actually slipped in recent years, from 0.20 in 1998 to 0.40 in 2002 and 0.69 in 2005. In 2005, the World Bank ranked China 142nd out of 204 countries on the Control of Corruption index.

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During the discussion, a number of developments in measuring the cost of corruption were highlighted and it was also pointed out that there were many issues that still needed to be addressed, including over reliance on perception based corruption indicators the weak empirical foundation of many aspects of corruption research the cumbersome and costly approaches needed to obtain more reliable data on corruption and ad hoc methodologies for measuring corruption.

Perception is reality.

(a) Stakeholder perception

Corruption is widely believed to be endemic in the country s police, secret service, administration, government, and Prosecutor s Office. On Transparency International s Corruption Perceptions Index 2010, Ukraine scored 2.4 on a scale from zero (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean).

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