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Guyana drops two points on Transparency International’s ranking

Guyana went down by two points with a score of 39 and ranking of 87 out of 180 countries in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2021 released today – the first full year of the PPP/C’s new term in office.

The country however  tops the list of countries that have made significantly positive improvements over the years. In recent years Guyana has been pointed out in the TI indices as one of the better performing countries.

“These countries significantly improved in the last 10 years: Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, China, Cote d’Ivoire, Estonia, Ethiopia, Greece, Guyana, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Paraguay, Senegal, Seychelles, South Korea, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam,” the report stated.

The new report shows that the battle against corruption is faltering with 86 per cent of countries making little to no progress in the last 10 years. It was stated that at the top of the CPI, countries in Western Europe and the European Union continue to wrestle with transparency and accountability in their response to COVID-19, threatening the region’s clean image. In parts of Asia Pacific, the Americas, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, increasing restrictions on accountability measures and basic civil freedoms allow corruption to go unchecked. Even historically high-performing countries are showing signs of decline.

According to the report a country’s score is the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 means very clean.

Source & rest of article -- https://www.stabroeknews.com/2...ernationals-ranking/

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