WTN Exclusive- Curtain raiser "Corruption Index 2017" – Reveals how corrupt Nations are. India Rank 79.
Wednesday - January 25, 2017 3:32 pm ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
By Jaya Khare :
The annual Corruption Perceptions Index has released the report for the year 2016, with unmasking the corruption level persistant among the countries. Where Europe dominate as usual and had cat dog fight for first position among them for being corruption free nation, the land of queen, UK has scored 81/100, putting it in line with Germany and Luxembourg, and just steps behind the likes of New Zealand and Denmark, which topped the list with a score of 90.The south of Globe remains at bottom - a very shallow.
Rank Country Score
1 Denmark 90/100
1 New Zealand 90/100
3 Finland 89/100
4 Sweden 88/100
5 Switzerland 86/100
6 Norway 85/100
7 Singapore 84/100
8 Netherlands 83/100
9 Canada 82/100
10 Germany 81/100
10 Luxembourg 81/100
10 United Kingdom 81/100
Transparency International, who produced the corruption table places India with scores of 40 out of 100 ie average of 79 position out of 176 nations, as still struggling and unbalanced nation among the Asian and no mark of significant impact in improvement even after the efforts of prime Minister Modi’s Demonitisation . As per the reports majority of Asian Pacific countries are in shallow and out of 30 nations 19 including India has scored 40 or less out of 100. India has scored 40 and showed no sign of improvement as compare to last year’s performance.
The report by Transperncy states, retairment in lowering the corruption is due to "unaccountable governments, lack of oversight, insecurity and shrinking space for civil society, pushing anti-corruption action to the margins. High-profile corruption scandals, in addition to everyday corruption issues, continue to undermine public trust in government, the benefits of democracy and the rule of law" says report.
Across Asia where Afganisthan has improved with 15/100 , remains one of the 10 very corrupt countires of index, though with wast correction in index from last year ie 8/100.
Where Afganisthan improved, Combodia got worst Cambodia, for the second year in a row, is the most corrupt South East Asian country on the list, with a score of 21. Thailand dropped to 35 in its score this year mention in report.
China increased by 3 points but remains at the poor score of 40 out of 100, matches the position with India ie 79th rank with index 40..
The report says “China has focused its anti-corruption efforts on catching “tigers and flies” – corrupt public officials big and small. This cannot come at the expense of transparency and independent oversight. Efforts to fight corruption must include a holistic approach involving civil society as well as the private sector”- mention
Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions .
Scores of Asian Pacific are :
Rank Country Score
176 Somalia 10
175 South Sudan 11
174 North Korea 12
173 Syria 13
170 Yemen 14
170 Sudan 14
170 Libya 14
169 Afghanistan 15
African subcontinat need revolutionary measures to fight corrouption say report.
Botswana with rank , 60 and score of 35 in African Sub Continent. Cape Verde at 59 with 38/100. At Mauritius 54 with 50/100.
Rwanda 54 50/100
Namibia 52 53/100
Sao Tome and Principe 46 62/100
Senegal 45 64/100
South Africa 45 64/100
Ghana 43 70/100
Burkina Faso 42 72/100.
Source : www.transparency.org
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