RESEARCHERS FIND STATS ON CORRUPTION LACK CREDIBILITY
May 1st, 2021
Not one of 10 commonly cited corruption statistics are credible, according to the latest report from the U4 Anti-corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. Cecilie Wathne and Matthew C. Stephenson assessed whether 10 widely cited statistics were sourced from “reasonably reliable data” and based on a transparent estimation method. Within ‘The credibility of corruption statistics - A critical review of ten global estimates’ (1), the authors concluded that four statistics “appear to be entirely unfounded” because ...
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