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gregory999
Joined: 29 Jul 2015 Posts: 372 Location: 999
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:33 pm Post subject: Corruption Perceptions Index 2015 |
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"Northern Europe emerges well in the index – it’s home to four of the top five countries.
But just because a country has a clean public sector at home, doesn’t mean it isn’t linked to corruption elsewhere.
Take Sweden for instance. It comes third in the index, yet the Swedish-Finnish firm TeliaSonera – 37 per cent owned by the Swedish state – is facing allegations that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to secure business in Uzbekistan, which comes in at 153rd in the index."
"The scale of the issue is huge. Sixty-eight per cent of countries worldwide have a serious corruption problem. Half of the G20 are among them.
Not one single country, anywhere in the world, is corruption-free."
Table of results: Corruption Perceptions Index 2015:
1. Denmark
2. Finland
3. Sweden
4. New Zealand
5. Netherlands
5. Norway
7. Switzerland
8. Singapore
9. Canada
10 Germany
10 Luxembourg
10 United Kingdom
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16. USA
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22. Qatar
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119 Russia ??????
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015#results-table
I see the USA is ranked 16!!
I guess the corruption in the USA is mainly from the federal government and its internal and international politics? |
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wangdaning
Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 3154
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:09 am Post subject: |
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If you actually read about their data collection it seems a bit mysterious. Data is collected from surveys and from reputable organizations, who is surveyed and which institutions are not really explained. In the end, this is a perception index, only loosely based on reality. |
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