In my previous posting I talked about why Brunei is not in the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) ranking of the least corrupt countries due to the lack of the available data. As a country we need a minimum of 3 independent surveys and so far I am told there are only 2 sets of independent surveys available. However, the World Governance Indicators (WGI) a research project commissioned by the World Bank did come up with some sort of an indicator known as the Control of Corruption. The WGI captures six key dimensions of governance (Voice and accountability, Political Stability and Lack of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of law and Control of Corruption) between 1996 and the present.The Control of Corruption Indicator for Brunei was based on 2 available data, Political Risk Services (www.asiarisk.com) and Global Insight Business Conditions and Risk Indicators (www.globalinsight.com). You can download a full report on Brunei by visiting (www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance) which shows how we fare in all the 6 dimensions of governance. The website provides an interactive database of the whole of the six indicators. However I am more interested to show you how we fare in the "Control of Corruption Indicator". Although the WGI does not rank countries, you can however use its interactive database to make a comparative ranking between the countries surveyed. So I came up with the graph on the left of the 10 countries that make up ASEAN for 2007 to see how we fare amongst our neighbours. We are slightly edging above Malaysia in number two spot but the graph clearly shows that we still have a lot of room for improvement if we were to compare ourselves with Singapore.
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