Talk:Worldwide Governance Indicators

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According to the text in the caption for the world map, it would seem the U.S. and Australia are the most corrupt, while Iraq, Libya and Sudan are least corrupt, this is obviously a typo according to the data on the U.S. at the referenced website (Worldwide Governance Indicators)

The text reads:

2005 World Map of the Corruption Index, which measures the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among businesses, public officials and politicians.

but should read something along the lines of:

2005 World Map of the Control of Corruption Index, which measures the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among businesses, public officials and politicians.

and then adjust the key to reflect that green equates to "high control"/"low corruption" and red to "low control"/"high corruption"

[edit] Why exactly...

...are there two different shades of green? Look at Portugal and Spain and you'll see what I mean. 68.39.174.238 14:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

The original source lists the data in percentile brackets : 207.235.66.3 (talk) 20:40, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

• 90+ = dark green
• 75-90 = light green
• 50-75 = yellow
• 25-50 = orange
• 10-25 = pink
• 10- = red

[edit] NPOV tag

I added a neutrality tag to the article because of the claims that the indicators reinforce the experiences and observations of reform-minded individuals in government, civil society, and the private sector, that good governance is key for development and Their growing recognition of the link between good governance and successful development has stimulated demand for monitoring the quality of governance. These sorts of claims represent points of view - I don't doubt that they are significant points of view that should be included - but we should be attributing them to the groups and movements that assert them not simply stating them as fact. Good sources for these claims would let us do that. -- SiobhanHansa 02:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)