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Measuring Corruption in East Timor

Written byMong Palatino

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Posted 14 December 2012 11:04 GMT

Great news: Timor-Leste reduced corruption more than every other country in the world! But is it true? We have a rapidly growing state budget, a minister facing prison, reports about corruption in the media every day and falling scores from other rating agencies.

La'o Hamutuk reviews the corruption indicators given to East Timor in the latest report of Transparency International

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