Sleaze is hobbling the recovery of war-ravaged countries like Iraq and Somalia, which joined Myanmar among states perceived as the world's most corrupt, an anti-graft watchdog reported Wednesday.
Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) said in its annual Corruption Perceptions Index covering 180 countries that some of the world's poorest nations were seen as having the most dishonest political and business elites.
But the group said that even countries believed to be the least corrupt -- named this year as Denmark, Finland and New Zealand -- needed to do more to combat corporate graft.
"It is not just a problem of the poor countries, rich and poor nations share heavy responsibility, said Huguette Labelle, chairwoman of the respected organisation.
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