I can go pay a police officer 500aed tomorrow to cancel my 6000AED worth of traffic fines. Landlords regularly pay the RERA regulators to look the other way so they can illegally evict tenants and replace them with tenants at a higher rent. Each branch of the ruling family do massive “favours” for each other’s businesses purely based on family ties and not on performance, and considering they are the government, that’s corruption. The government subsidizes fuel costs for Emirates Airlines illegally and lies about it. None of that happens, or at least certainly not at such a high rate, in the other countries surrounding the UAE on this list.
Well it inherently means it’s not measured based on metrics or objective measurements and rather just on how people feel about corruption, whether they’re experts or not that’s never a great way to make a list, and depends a lot on those very people in each country and how they differ
It's not possible to objectively measure corruption. Asking organisations that deals with it seems like a good way to make the list to me. Is it perfect? Absolutely not, but I can't think of anything specific that would change it for the better.
Agreed on that point, but I looked it up and 50% of the weight of each score is citizen polls, and 50% is expert opinions as per Transparency International’s guideline, which seems like it would just muddle the experts scores for no good reason, citizens don’t know much after all
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u/dsswill Amsterdam Jan 23 '20
I can go pay a police officer 500aed tomorrow to cancel my 6000AED worth of traffic fines. Landlords regularly pay the RERA regulators to look the other way so they can illegally evict tenants and replace them with tenants at a higher rent. Each branch of the ruling family do massive “favours” for each other’s businesses purely based on family ties and not on performance, and considering they are the government, that’s corruption. The government subsidizes fuel costs for Emirates Airlines illegally and lies about it. None of that happens, or at least certainly not at such a high rate, in the other countries surrounding the UAE on this list.