AROUND 56 MILLION PAID BRIBES FOR PUBLIC SERVICES IN LATIN AMERICA
September 1st, 2019
More than one in five or around 56 million people who accessed public services in Latin America and the Caribbean last year paid a bribe, according to the latest 18-country survey from Transparency International. The police notched up the highest bribery rate (24%), followed by other public services such as utilities (19%). The report, “Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) -- Latin America and the Caribbean 2019,”* showed that the percentage of people who paid police a bribe in the last 12 months ranged from 62% in Venezuela and 52% in Mexico to 5% in Costa ...
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