Definition of Corruption:
- corruptness: lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- putrescence: in a state of progressive putrefaction
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; “the luxury and corruption among the upper classes”; “moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration”; “its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity”; “Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction”
- destroying someone’s (or some group’s) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; “corruption of a minor”; “the big city’s subversion of rural innocence”
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); “he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering”

Transparency International released (some time ago) the report on their project – Corruption Perceptions Index 2007: Persistent corruption in low-income countries requires global action
It has 179 countries with 1 being the less corrupted.
On the top 10 of less corrupted countries we have: Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and Norway.
The ten more corrupted are: Somalia, Myanmar, Iraq Haiti, Uzbekistan, Tonga, Sudan, Chad, Afghanistan and Laos.

Portugal is on the number 29, Uruguay on the 25 and Argentina on the 105th position.
Sao tome and Principe the country I’m work on at the moment is on 118.

See the press released and other interesting facts