About BBI
The Business Bribery Index (BBI) was originally developed by Dr. Amir Farmanesh, CEO of People Analytics, as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Maryland, College Park. It offers an estimation of national annual bribes paid by the business sector to governments, in each country worldwide, in the currency of that country at the time, and the equivalent amount in US dollars. The data is available for 127 countries, mostly in the developing world.
An experience-based measure of corruption, BBI utilizes corruption and enterprise surveys carried out through the World Bank Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) and the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES). A number of additional data sources have also been used to validate the BBI data as a means of ensuring its quality.
BBI was also presented at the University of Toronto, where Dr. Farmanesh served as visiting faculty, and was referenced in the Centre for Ethics’ Quantitative Ethics materials as an example of quantitative data that can be used in ethics research.
Global Business Bribery Index (BBI):
Business Bribery Index, 2008. Darker color indicates more bribery reported; colors range from dark red to lighter red, with each band representing 20 percentiles.