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The 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) was released yesterday by Transparency International. Ghana scored 43 out of a possible clean score of 100 and is ranked 75 out of
180 countries included in this year’s index.
This CPI score indicates that Ghana gained two points compared to its 2019 score of 41. Ghana’s score also exceeds the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) average of 32 and is equal to the global average score of 43.
According to the report, Denmark and New Zealand topped the 2020 CPI with 88 points each. Syria, Somalia and South Sudan are at the bottom with 14, 12 and 12 points respectively. The highest scoring region is Western Europe and the European Union with an average score of 66, whilst the lowest scoring region is Sub-Saharan Africa with an average score of 32.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS The Bahamas has dropped one spot to being ranked at 30 out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI).
The Bahamas scored 63 points out of 100 on the index. Barbados, which ranked at 29, scored 64. New Zealand and Denmark both ranked number one, each with a score of 88.
The report states that a country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale from zero to 100. Zero means the country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means the country is perceived as very clean.
The Corruption Perception Index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and business people.
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Despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign boast that he would eliminate corruption in the Philippines , the country’s rating in Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index remained at the same level as last year and one notch lower than when he began his presidency in 2016.
By most accounts, corruption has worsened under Duterte and, by his own admission, the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown to stem its spread have become lucrative sources of graft.
The index, which was released on Thursday (Jan 28) by the Berlin-based NGO, gave the Philippines a rating of 34 for 2020, the same score it received last year and a decrease from the 35 in 2016, which was Duterte’s first year in office.
Published January 29, 2021, 11:09 PM
A House of Representatives official representing the anti-corruption partylist CIBAC lamented on Friday the country’s dismal rating in the recently released 2020 Corruption Perception Index that was taken while the whole nation grappled with the adverse economic and public health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Deputy Speaker Bro. Eddie Villanueva, together with fellow CIBAC Partylist Rep. Domingo Rivera, disclosed that the Philippines remained below the 2020 Asia Pacific average score of 45 when it registered a low 34 which is a retention of the same number in 2019.
However, Villanueva and Rivera said the rating given by the global watchdog Transparency International ranked Philippines two rungs below its 2019 level.