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- Transparency International has ranked India at 85 among 180 countries in its Corruption Perception Index report released recently.
Key Findings
- World:
- Overall, two-thirds of the 168 countries on the 2015 index scored below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean).
- Denmark took the top spot for the 2nd year running.
- North Korea and Somalia turned out to be the worst performers, scoring just 8 points each.
- Among those with weak scores are some of the world’s most populous countries such as:
- China (45) and
- India (40), and
- Indonesia (38),
- Pakistan (28) and
- Bangladesh (26)
- In the Asia Pacific area, the common rating stays 45 for the third 12 months in a row. Over 70% of the area’s nations rank beneath 50.
- Pandemic:
- The pandemic, supplied an excuse for Bangladesh, Pakistan and Singapore governments to “tighten control and weaken accountability.
- India:
- In 2021, India ranked 86th with the same CPI score of 40. This year, it has improved one position, 85th.
- Issues:
- Stagnant score:
- While the country’s score has remained stagnant over the past decade, some of the mechanisms that could help reign in corruption are weakening.
- Democracy:
- There are concerns over the country’s democratic status, as fundamental freedoms and institutional checks and balances decay
- Risk to journalists:
- The report highlighted concerns over the risk to journalists and activists who have been victims of attacks by the police, political militants, criminal gangs and corrupt local officials.
- Right to Speak:
- Civil society organisations that speak up against the government have been targeted with security, defamation, sedition, hate speech and contempt-of-court charges, and with regulations on foreign funding
- Stagnant score:
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Corruption Perception Index (CPI)
- It is prepared by Transparency International.
- The index covered perceptions of public sector corruption in 168 countries.
- It ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
- It is a composite index that draws from 12 surveys to rank nations around the globe.
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Transparency International
- About:
- Transparency International is a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption.
- It is an international non -governmental organisation founded in 1993 based in Berlin, Germany
- Focus:
- The focus is on issues with the greatest impact on people’s lives and hold the powerful to account for the common good.
- Way of working:
- Through advocacy, campaigning and research, work is done to expose the systems and networks that enable corruption to thrive, demanding greater transparency and integrity in all areas of public life.
- Mission:
- To stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.
- Definition of Corruption:
- Corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.
- Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development and further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social division and the environmental crisis.
- Exposing corruption and holding the corrupt to account can only happen if we understand the way corruption works and the systems that enable it.
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