| Author (Corporate) | Transparency International |
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| Publisher | Transparency International |
| Series Title | Corruption Perceptions Index |
| Publication Date | December 2014 |
| Content Type | Report, Statistics |
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Transparency International published its 20th edition of the worldwide Corruption Perceptions Index on the 3 December 2014. Within the European Union, Italy, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria were seen as equally corrupt among EU countries, while Denmark, Finland and Sweden performed well. The Corruption Perceptions Index is based on expert opinions of public sector corruption. Countries’ scores can be helped by open government where the public can hold leaders to account, while a poor score is a sign of prevalent bribery, lack of punishment for corruption and public institutions that don’t respond to citizens’ needs. However, as an article in The Conversation pointed out, the Index 'is not a measure of how much corruption exists in each country but a look at opinions on the public sector. It deliberately doesn’t, for example, look at business-to-business transactions, such as rate-rigging between banks'. |
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| Source Link | http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014 |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe |
