75% of countries perceived as corrupt

INTERNATIONAL Transparency International (TI), a non-profit international watchdog, announced over the weekend that 75 % of countries are perceived as corrupt in its 2010 Corruptions Perceptions Index. "We're not talking about corruption as in breaking the law," said Nancy Boswell, President of TI-USA, "but about how a system is perceived as being corrupt through those practices." The NGO published an interactive map on the subject. On a scale of 0 (Highly Corrupt) to 10 (Very Clean), Spain comes in at 6.1, which is the same as it was last year. The Index concludes that the international financial crisis has influenced corruption all over the world, but significantly, the OECD  countries are almost entirely absent from a list of countries that improved the perception of corruption in them. Have a look for yourself, it's interesting.