Greece: Even Corruption Is In A Deep Recession

Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com

Transparency International just published the results of its 2011 National Survey on Corruption in Greece, which tried to sort out the kind of bribery and petty corruption that households had to deal with in their daily lives, and the results were sobering, as they tend to be with corruption surveys—but in an unexpected way: for those asking for bribes, an outright depression has commenced.

Corruption is an issue in Greece. In [...]

From the 2011 Economist Intelligen­­ce Unit World Book in Figures: Rank of America versus the rest of the world for:

GDP Per Capita:   #20   (in 2000 – #7)
Purchasing Power:  #12  (in 2000 – #3)
Human Developmen­­t Index: #13   (in 2000 – #3)
Economic Freedom Index:  #8   (in 2000 ? #6)
Gender Developmen­­t Index:  #19  (in 2000 – #14)
Biggest Exporter (good and services): #2  (in 2000 – #1)
Biggest Trader of Goods:  #3  (in 2000 – #1)
Largest Manufactur­­er:  #2   (in 2000 – #1)
Foreign Currency Reserves:  #6  (in 2000 – #4)
Largest [...]

From the 2011 Economist Intelligen­­ce Unit World Book in Figures: Rank of America versus the rest of the world for:

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GDP Per Capita:   #20

Purchasing Power:  #12

Human Developmen­­t Index: #13

Economic Freedom Index:  #8

Gender Developmen­­t Index:  #19

Biggest Exporter (good and services): #2

Biggest Trader of Goods:  #3

Largest Manufactur­­er:  #2

Foreign Currency Reserves:  #6

Largest donors of foreign aid and assistance (% of GDP):  #24

Largest agricultur­­al output:  #3

Global competitiv­­eness:  #3

Business environmen­­t:  #13

Technology adoption index:  #13

Total expenditur­­e on R&D (% of GDP):  #7

Patents:  #2

Corruption Perception Index:  #22

Car production­­:  #3

Most rail passengers­­:   #46

Most rail freight: [...]