Friday, December 10, 2010

TI: Corruption Reigns Worldwide; Georgia Comes Out on Top

According to Transparency International’s recently released 2010 Barometer, rates of corruption in the world are rising. Six out of ten respondents say that corruption has gotten worse over the past three years, and most alarmingly, rates of bribe-paying to the police have nearly doubled since 2006. However, as the chart below illustrates, Georgia fares extremely well in this global assessment, as the only post Soviet country in this list where less than 6% of respondents reported paying bribes in the past year. Georgia thus is way ahead of several EU countries, including Austria, France, Greece and Poland.

Armenia is already in the top three league of corruption, and Azerbaijan in the top two. Note that this matches our own corruption data from Armenia, which we collected for MAAC. We are releasing this with a press conference today. More on that to follow.


Access the full report here, and provide us with your thoughts and comments.

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1 comment:

The Eblana European Democratic Movement said...

Corruption is not in the DNA of the people of a nation. It is created over the years, decades and centuries with occupations, juntas, authoritarian regimes, foreign intervention and civil wars. And the Caucasus region being a very geo-strategic region, suffered all of them. For the oil pipes! So do not be surprised at all, and do not point the finger!

best regards,

chris eblana

www.eblanademocraticmove.blogspot.com

5:57 PM

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