June 17, 2009

What World MPs Really Make

Shakeup Media

Created by Shakeup Media— the distance from the yellow cross to each dot represents the base bay of parlimentarians, expressed as a multiple of percapita GDP ($). The angle from the thick yellow line to each dot represents a so-called Good Governance Metric calculated by taking the average of The Democracy Index (DCI) published by the Economist, the UN’s Human Development Index (HDI) and the Perception of Corruption Index (PCI) by NGO Transparency. The farther away from zero the angle, the lower the score and the worse the governance.

Thanks, infosthetics.

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  1. Sheila Ryan on June 17th, 2009 at 11:49 am

    Whoa! I have so many problems with this. I need to go look more closely.

    Base pay, so calculated, surely does not factor in graft and corruption. I need to pursue the link so that I can offer an intelligent critique.

    It’s just that — China? Nigeria? Pakistan?

    People I’ve known who have either grown up in (or attempted to trade with) these countries have told me such horror stories.

  2. Fuz on June 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am

    This is radical. Totally.

  3. Derek White on June 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am

    did anyone find Kenya? They are way off the charts from what I hear, the highest paid government officials in the world. Maybe they are so far off the map they are not included.

  4. Kelsey Parker on June 18th, 2009 at 11:12 am

    So far as I could tell, Kenya is only surpassed by Cambodia.

  5. Derek White on June 18th, 2009 at 11:54 am

    aww, thanks, wasn’t scrolling far enough. I think that salary of 30k a year is way off though, especially considering perks. This article has some interesting stats…
    http://allafrica.com/stories/200901220400.html

    keep in mind there’s about 80 kShillings to the dollar, so that’s about $20,000 a month salary, and that doesn’t include all the perks. For example, they also get $8,000 us a month just to MAINTAIN their car amongst other things. It’s completely insane in a country where people on average make a few bucks a day.

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