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Gambia improves score in global corruption index
Tuesday, 26 October 2010 14:42
By JollofNews Staff WriterTransparency International has identified Gambia among ten countries that realized improvement in its latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI).
In its 2010 CPI, published today, the global corruption monitoring body said nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below
five, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 10 (perceived to have low levels of corruption), indicating “a serious corruption problem.”The report notes that where source surveys for individual countries remain the same, and where there is corroboration by more than half of those sources, real changes in perceptions can be ascertained. And using these criteria, it went on, “it is possible to establish an improvement in scores from 2009 to 2010 for Bhutan, Chile, Ecuador, FYR Macedonia, Gambia, Haiti, Jamaica, Kuwait, and Qatar.”
The report also pointed to a decline in scores within the same period for Niger, Madagascar and the United States, among seven countries.
In the 2010 CPI, Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore tie for first place with scores of 9.3, the report notes. It adds that unstable governments, often with a legacy of conflict, continue to dominate the bottom rungs of the CPI. While Afghanistan and Myanmar share second to last place with a score of 1.4, Somalia occupies the bottom of the table as the world's most corrupt country with a score of 1.1.
“These results signal that significantly greater efforts must go into strengthening governance across the globe. With the livelihoods of so many at stake, governments’ commitments to anti-corruption, transparency and accountability must speak through their actions. Good governance is an essential part of the solution to the global policy challenges governments face today,” said Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International (TI).
Transparency International is the global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption. Its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is a composite index, drawing on 13 different expert and business surveys. Source surveys for the 2010 CPI were conducted between January 2009 and September 2010.
Notable among decliners are some of the countries most affected by a financial crisis precipitated by transparency and integrity deficits, the report said. Among those improving, the general absence of OECD states underlines the fact that all nations need to bolster their good governance mechanisms.
“Allowing corruption to continue is unacceptable; too many poor and vulnerable people continue to suffer its consequences around the world. We need to see more enforcement of existing rules and laws. There should be nowhere to hide for the corrupt or their money,” said Labelle.
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