Corruption is a serious problem in many countries around the world, according to Transparency Internationals 2012 … Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and the World Banks 2011 Control of Corruption governance indicator. However, some countries … like New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Hong Kong, have consistently performed better on these two indicators …

Corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries, judging from their ranking and scores on Transparency … International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). To combat corruption these countries have relied on three patterns of corruption … control. The first pattern relies on the enactment of anti-corruption laws without a specific agency to enforce these laws …