The latest Transparency International (TI), the Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog, ranks India at number 70 on its Corruption Perception Index in a list of 163 countries. India's ranking last year was number 88. Hope they have not got bribed by Indians while preparing this index.The report says that Iraq, Myanmar and Haiti are the most corrupt nations in the world, while Finland, Iceland and New Zealand are seen least corrupt.
The 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index is a composite index that draws on multiple expert opinion surveys that poll perceptions of public sector corruption in 163 countries around the world, the greatest scope of any CPI to date. It scores countries on a scale from zero to ten, with zero indicating high levels of perceived corruption and ten indicating low levels of perceived corruption.
see the Corruption Perception Index here .
Source : A report on rediff.com
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