The task of identifying corruption is not an easy one, corruption takes many forms, festers at many levels, and is in the end, is very difficult to catch and neutralize; accordingly, perpetrators often take extreme countermeasures to avoid detection. However, there are several economic performance indicators that can provide insight just as to how corrupt a nation is, and at what basic levels of transparency the nation operates at. Over the course of the last half-century, the culmination of poverty, corruption, and instability has wreaked havoc in Sub-Saharan
The task of identifying corruption is not an easy one, corruption takes many forms, festers at many levels, and is in the end, is very difficult to catch and neutralize; accordingly, perpetrators often take extreme countermeasures to avoid detection. However, there are several economic performance indicators that can provide insight just as to how corrupt a nation is, and at what basic levels of transparency the nation operates at. Over the course of the last half-century, the culmination of poverty, corruption, and instability has wreaked havoc in Sub-Saharan