How corrupt is Bhutan?

By aggregate measures, Bhutan performs well. Transparency International's CPI typically places the country in the upper half of Asian countries; surveys of outright bribery are low. The more interesting structural finding is informal: the 2022 National Integrity Assessment found that 58.89% of Bhutanese believe favouritism — the phone call that moves the file — speeds up service delivery. The book's Chapter Five argues this is a country small enough that the formal queue and the informal network occupy the same office building.