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Transparency International (TI) is an international organization devoted to fighting political corruption.
Competitiveness and corruption. Presented for the first time at the workshop Corruption how and why to avoid it in Prague, November 1998 TI is organised as a group of some 90 national chapters, with a central secretariat. Originally founded in Germany as a not-for-profit organisation, TI is now an international non-governmental organization, and is moving towards a completely democratic organizational structure.
It rejects any idea of "northern superiority" regarding corruption, and is dedicated to exposing corruption world-wide.
One of the most notable publications produced by TI is the annual Global Corruption Report.
The value of their corruption surveys is disputed, since they are based on polls indicating the "subjective appreciation of the polled people as to the amount of corruption in the studied countries rather than on objective information". Another problem is that what is legally defined, or perceived, to be corruption differs between jurisdictions: a political donation legal in some jurisdiction may be illegal in another. Similarly, one country's acceptable tip may be another country's unacceptable bribe.
To such critics, TI replies that not only they use comparatistic methods as developed during last decades by renown institutes, but that precisely their aim is to get a united view on curruption. And, to get people united to introduce integrity.
A relation of countries' competitiveness and corruption has been discussed for the first time in a TI workshop in Prague, Nov'89.
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