ABSTRACT
Although corruption is a universal and persistent global phenomenon, it has tended to be more pervasive in developing countries. Most global measures of corruption have repeatedly ranked the countries of South Asia at the top of the list of the most corrupt countries in the world.The level of corruption in the region, however, has varied considerably and appears to be somewhat more pervasive in some countries than others. While Pakistan and Bangladesh, for example, repeatedly appeared at the top of the list of the most corrupt countries in the world, India and Sri Lanka ranked much lower.
