GLOBAL CORRUPTION PROBLEM ‘VERY WORRYING’
TI puts RP as among Asia’s most corrupt
10/27/2010The country retained its rank as among Asia’s most corrupt even as it slightly improved in its ranking this year in Transparency International (TI)’s yearly global corruption survey which placed the Philippines 134th out of 178 countries ranked.
The rating of the country improved from 139th last year but among its Asian peers it remained dismally at the tail-end as most countries in the region improved remarkably in the ranking.
The Philippines lagged behind most of its neigboring countries in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, 56th; Thailand, 78th; Indonesia, 110th; and Vietnam, 116th, making the Philippines the most corrupt in this region.
In its 2010 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), TI said the Philippines was ranked 134th with a score of 2.4, better than its 139th ranking in 2009. In 2008, the Philippines was ranked 141st with a score of 2.3.
Only Cambodia and Myanmar were below the Philip-pines in the transparency list.
The Philippines is still consi-dered in the survey as “highly corrupt” and at the same level as that of Kenya, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Republic of Congo, Uganda, Timor Leste, Lebanon, Solomon Islands, Mali, Mongolia, Niger, Libya, Iran, Nepal, Yemen, Cambodia, Venezuela, Honduras, Syria, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Benin, Gabon, Indonesia, Kosovo, Kazakhatan, Modova, among others..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101027hed1.html
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