OVER TWO THIRDS OF COUNTRIES SEEN AS CORRUPT IN LATEST TI ASSESSMENT
January 1st, 2017
MORE than two thirds of countries rated for public sector corruption in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) failed to score 50, the halfway point between 0 and 100, with zero regarded as totally corrupt and 100 as unimpeachably clean.
Published January 25, the index showed 69% of the 176 countries surveyed rated less than 50 on this scale. For TI’s 2016 assessment, Denmark and New Zealand topped the table each scoring 90, closely followed by Finland (89) and Sweden (88). For the 10th year running, Somalia scraped the bottom ...
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