Global Corruption Report 2006. From Transparency International, "the global coalition against corruption." Lots and lots of info. This year there's a special focus on health care corruption, including reports entitled The causes of corruption in the health sector (.pdf) and Corruption in the pharmaceutical sector (.pdf). Also, reports on corruption in countries from Algeria to Venezuela (two downloads: A to K (.pdf) and M to Z (.pdf)). Plus, much, much more!

A couple of samples: From the United States report: Also in January, after the ethics committee reproached Tom DeLay, who heads the Republican majority in the House, for ethical misconduct, the Speaker replaced the committee's chairman and two other members in what many considered an attempt to stifle criticism. The Speaker also proposed (and the House approved) additional reforms, including the automatic dismissal of an ethics charge if the committee did not take action for 45 days; the charge would have effectively allowed either party to kill an investigation merely by delaying action. From the Venezuela report: The independence of Venezuela's judiciary has been called into question since a law on the Supreme Court in 2004 replaced regulations that had been in force since 1976. . . . The law's most important change was to increase the number of judges from 20 to 32. . . . National and international NGOs and some sectors of the opposition insisted that the real motive behind the new law was the need to stuff the judiciary with supporters of President Chavez.