Corruption rates: Malawi versus Zambia

Transparency International has released the 2009 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and Malawi seems to be doing fine relative to last year's scores. See http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2004

The trend in CPI ranking and the scores for Malawi are graphed below, by year
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The bottom line is that we are not too bad, are we?

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