Report Ranks Countries Prone To Bribery

In a recently released report, TRACE International, an international anti-bribery business association, ranked 199 countries based on the risk of encountering bribery within the country's public sector.

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The TRACE Matrix's rating are based on four core domains: business interactions with government, anti-bribery laws and enforcement, government transparency, and capacity for civil oversight. As part of the part of the business interactions with government domain, the report examines the extent to which business must interact with government officials and weight of regulatory burden which may increase the number of bribery opportunities as well as the reported expectation of businesses that they will have to pay a bribe somewhere along the way. As part of the second domain, the report considers both enacted anti-bribery laws as well as the actual level of enforcement of any anti-bribery statutes. Government