It came out better than China and India and a long way ahead of Russia in the latest index of perceptions of corruption compiled by Transparency International, a German NGO.

德国民间机构“国际透明组织”汇编的最新贪腐认知指数，巴西的排名优于中国和印度，更遥遥领先俄罗斯。

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Transparency International recently ranked Yemen 146 out of 178 countries on their 2010 corruption perception index, ahead of only Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan in the region.

透明国际最新2010年清廉指数统计显示，也门在调查的178个国家中排名146，在所在地区仅领先伊拉克，索马里和苏丹。

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Robin Hodess directs research at Transparency International. She says the index can show people involved in policy decisions how others see the issue of corruption in their countries.

罗宾?霍德斯负责透明国际组织的研究工作，她说，这个指数可以让决策者了解外人如何看待本国的腐败问题。

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This may be, the authors say, because relative pay levels are unlikely to have changed enough even over a dozen years to show up on an index of corruption that is broad and subjective to begin with.

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El Salvador, for example, pays its bureaucrats far more than the average factory worker but still ranks towards the bottom of the corruption index.

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Let's look at the U.S. Over the past few years, traditional measures of corruption, such as the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, have placed the U.S. among the least corrupt nations in the world, currently ranking No. 18 among 180 rated countries.

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