Politicians' salaries Leaders of the fee world How much a country's leader is paid compared to GDP per person

Ever wonder why Indian politicans are so Corrupted, well for starters their salaries are pathetic, if you scrool down you will notice the Indian PM's salary of just over $4,000, thats ridiculus, the Indian PMs salary should be in the range of Russians leaders or at least Indonesia. Their is nothing wrong if you pay your leaders well and you expect them to produce and take no bribes.
I bet at present most Indian politicians under table (corruption) salary out strips the Singapore PMs salary of $2.1 Million/ year.

Jul 5th 2010


ON MONDAY July 5th Raila Odinga, Kenya's prime minister, rejected the pay increase he was awarded by the country's parliament last week. MPs had granted Mr Odinga a rise to nearly $430,000 a year, while giving themselves a 25% increase to $175,000. This boost would place Mr Odinga among the highest-paid political leaders in the world. More worryingly, his salary would be some 240 times greater than the country's GDP per person (measured on a purchasing-power parity basis). Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, tops our list of selected leaders' salaries. He is paid more than 40 times the city-state’s GDP per person. At the other end of the scale, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, reaffirms his reputation for saintliness by taking a modest sum from Indian taxpayers.