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» {Education} Article: Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index 2012
{Education} Article: Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index 2012
- India's image on tackling corruption has not improved with Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (wiki link included) placing it at 94th
rank out of 176 nations this year.
- Though India was ranked at 95th
position last year, the international watchdog said it has started
evaluating the positions through a different formula beginning this year
and hence this cannot be compared to last year's ranking.
- However, the last year's rank of 95 would be 96 if it is calculated
using the new methodology which implies there was a "slight improvement"
in the index.
- This year, India has a score of 36 out of 100 on a
scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) which is a result of
an average of 10 studies including World Bank's Country Performance and
Institutional Assessment and Global Insight Country Risk Ratings.
- India
was ranked 72 among 180 countries for the first time in 2007 and since
then the country's rankings have been showing a decline. While India was
placed at 87 in 2010, the position was 95 in 2011.
- This year,
India is ranked below neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka (79) and China (80),
while Afghanistan, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh fared much worse
than India when it came to corruption in public sector undertakings.
- Denmark
is placed at the top spot with a score of 90 while Finland and New
Zealand follow very closely. Countries that occupy the bottom ranks in
the index are Myanmar, Sudan Afghanistan, Somalia and North Korea.