** Its that time of the year again the Worlds most Corrupt countries 2003**
For the consecutive third time Bangladesh remain at top of the chart of the most corrupted country . Nigeria placed in the second position.
Corruption remains rife in many of the world’s poorest countries and seems to be worsening in several key industrialised states as well, a new report has said.
LOWEST RANKED
113: DR Congo, Ecuador, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Uganda
118: Cote d’Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Papua New Guinea
122: Indonesia, Kenya
124: Angola, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Georgia, Tajikistan
129: Burma, Paraguay
131: Haiti
132: Nigeria
133: Bangladesh
(Ranking on the Corruption Perception Index 2003 out of 133 countries)
The annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI), published by anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI), puts Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Haiti at the bottom of the 133-country list.
At the top of the list - which measures the perception of corruption among both locals and expatriates - countries such as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and New Zealand remain the cleanest places to do business.
**Getting better: **
Austria, Belgium, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Malaysia, Norway, Tunisia
**Getting worse: **
Argentina, Belarus, Chile, Canada, Israel, Luxembourg, Poland, USA, Zimbabwe
Transparency International Corruption Table 2003
I have some difficulty with this table yes the poor countries have corruption on the street level,however even the rich nations like America and Europe the corruption is like a plague amoung the business community with networking and bribes so common i am sure this is not taken into account even Bush is bribed by corporations is this taken into account how about Blair and his 1 million pound bribe from formula 1 racing and these are incidents that were made public what about the ones we don’t know about. :nono: