{"id":14033,"date":"2016-05-06T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2016-05-05T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T03:15:12","slug":"want-to-know-if-a-country-is-corrupt-figure-out-how-good-its-drivers-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/want-to-know-if-a-country-is-corrupt-figure-out-how-good-its-drivers-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Know If A Country Is Corrupt? Figure Out How Good Its Drivers Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/050616_0313_WantToKnowI1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Groskopf reported on the relationship between governance and traffic fatalities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A statistical analysis found that the more corrupt a country is, the greater the number of road accidents it has.<\/li>\n<li>This is driven in part by corrupt governments being more likely to siphon infrastructure funds away for other purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Corrupt countries might also have corrupt traffic police that take bribes instead of punishing people for traffic violations.<\/li>\n<li>And there is a relationship between income and corruption. Traffic fatalities began to go down once a people&#8217;s income increases above $10,000 per capita. It&#8217;s usually uncorrupt governments that are able to manage this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See a visualization of the data and read more about the study <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/666924\/bad-drivers-are-a-good-indicator-of-a-corrupt-government\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/666924\/bad-drivers-are-a-good-indicator-of-a-corrupt-government\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Groskopf reported on the relationship between governance and traffic fatalities: A statistical analysis found that the more corrupt a country is, the greater the number of road accidents it has. This is driven in part by corrupt governments being more likely to siphon infrastructure funds away for other purposes. Corrupt countries might also have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/050616_0313_WantToKnowI1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14036,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions\/14036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}