Western multinationals and financial centres are often “complicit in driving corruption in poor nations”, Transparency International, the anti-corruption watchdog, charged on Wednesday as it published its annual ranking of how corrupt different countries are perceived to be.
The comments came as the Berlin-based campaign group launched its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which measures perceived levels of corruption around the world based on results of 14 surveys of experts and business people.
Denmark, Finland and New Zealand are seen as least corrupt, each scoring 9.4, while Burma and Somalia, scored worst among the 180 countries listed, achieving a score of 1.4. Ten represents ‘highly clean’ while 0 represents ‘highly corrupt’ TI said.
The index – widely used by governments, companies and development organisations as a corruption gauge – shows a perceived worsening of corruption in several major industrial countries compared with 2006.
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