ARMENIA IMPROVES ITS RANKING IN CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX
Armenia has slightly improved its ranking in the list of 180 states in the 2007 "Corruption Perceptions Index," released Wednesday by Transparency International, a global NGO committed to fighting corruption.
Armenia's ranking represents a slight improvement from 2006, when it received a score of 2.9 out of 10, as opposed to this year's 3. The figures were announced today in Yerevan by Amalia Kostanian, head of Transparency International/Armenia.
She said Denmark, Finland and New Zealand tied for first place on the list, scoring at 9.4, and Singapore and Sweden followed them at 9.3. Britain is ranked 12th and the United States 20th, with scores of 8.4 and 7.2, respectively.
Eastern European states including Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, and Romania also bettered their showing, which the organization attributed to the "galvanizing effect of the European Union accession process".But strife-wracked states such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan remained stuck at the bottom of the index.
The index score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts. It ranges between zero, which is highly corrupt, and 10, which is very clean.
Armenia's score was taken from a combination of six surveys carried out by experts from the Asian Development Bank, Bertelsmann Transitional Index, the World Bank, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Freedom House, the Global Insight, the International Union of Merchants and the World Economic Forum.
The survey focuses on corruption in the public sector and among politicians, and the organization defines corruption as "the misuse of entrusted power for private gain."
More than half of the 180 states that were examined received scores of three or less, which indicates that funds needed for education, medicine and infrastructure are being pocketed by politicians.
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