Global Issues: Poverty and Development: New Transparency International Corruption Index

Transparency International - the NGO dedicated to monitoring political and corporate corruption - has just unveiled its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2011. War torn states are still the most corrupt in the world - with Somaila, everyone’s favourite ‘failed state’, topping the list as the world’s worst country followed by Burma, Afghanistan and North Korea. New Zealand keeps top place as the world’s least corrupt countries, with the UK 16th.

To folow up: 1. Look at Transparency International’s website which has interactve map, full list and explanatory vidoe clip. Click here,

1. Article in the Independent: New report shows UK corruption ‘has increased’