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Global Issues: Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index Results 2010
26th October 2010
Transparency International - the NGO dedicated to monitoring political and corporate corruption - has just unveiled its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2010. 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 Iraq. Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore tie for top place as the world’s least corrupt countries, with the UK 20th. Other notable results are Russia, rated as among the worst for corruption, in 154th place. And Italy, down in 67th spot, now comes below Rwanda. The US too is now more corrupt dropping to 22. Overall the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below five, on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). These results indicate a serious corruption problem.
It is the poor and vulnerable who suffer the consequences of corruption, Transparency International found. Hence, more should be done to enforce existing rules and laws, according to Huguette Labelle, chair of Transparency International; she said: “These results signal that significantly greater efforts must go into strengthening governance across the globe…With the livelihoods of so many at stake, governments’ commitments to anti-corruption, transparency and accountability must speak through their actions….Good governance is an essential part of the solution to the global policy challenges governments face today.”
Go to Transparency International’s website for full details of the list and use their interactive world map. Click here.
It also got a mention on tonight’s [Tuesday] Newsnight - here is the link for iplayer. Click here.
Other links are: Wikipedia - click here.
TIME: What a Rotten World It Can Be: Report Says Three-Fourths of World Is Corrupt
BBC: War-hit countries ‘most corrupt’
Transparency International UK