One of the few times, we are better than Singaporean, ( one of the few times only....)

There is these two economists called Raymond Fishman and Edward Miguel.
They had written a book name Economic Gangsters---Corruption , Violence and the poverty of Nations. .

They tried to find some ingenious way to measure a country's culture against corruption, for example, giving some people from the country with a law break immunity and see how will they act according to it.

The measures, taken for UN diplomats in highly congested New York city, to see how much parking violation the Diplomats from each country commit.

As a results, our neighbour Singaporean , ends up with 3.6 violations per diplomats.
While we, Malaysian, proudly commit violations of 1.4 per diplomats.

Although the corruption index for singapore is -2.50 during time of measures and Malaysian is -0.73 ( the more negative the better ) .

And, skipped the money if you want to bought the book as it just academic reports only.... :)