Corruption Perceptions Index

Posted on October 26, 2010 by townsend

• The world’s most corrupt countries, By Mike Blanchfield, October 26, 2010, Toronto Star: “The No. 1 recipient of Canadian taxpayers’ foreign-aid dollars is the second-most corrupt country in the world, a new report says. Afghanistan tied with the military dictatorship in Myanmar as the second-most corrupt country on the planet, according to the yearly audit by the Berlin-based group Transparency International. Somalia won the dubious distinction as most corrupt on the organization’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index. On the least-corrupt scale, Canada inched up to sixth from eighth from a year earlier in the ranking of 178 countries. Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore topped the list as the countries with the most virtuous public sectors…”
• Russia most corrupt among global powers, study says; U.S. ranking also worsens, By Will Englund, October 26, 2010, Washington Post: “Corruption in Russia has grown even more blatant over the past year, according to a report issued Tuesday by Transparency International, and the country has fallen from 146th place to 154th on the organization’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Russia tied with Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea and several African countries, and was ranked most corrupt among the G-20 nations. For the first time since Transparency International began issuing its annual list 15 years ago, the United States dropped out of the top 20 least-corrupt nations, because of financial scandals it has endured. The United States fell from 19th place to 22nd, behind Chile…”