In the 2014 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, Cameroon is 136th out of 175 countries in the world. Cameroon scored 27 points, moving to 136th place, from 144th last year.
This indicates that Cameroon gained two points this year, as the country scored 25 points in 2013, and 26 points in 2012.
Cameroon has come a long way from its infamous number 1 spot in 1998 and 1999.
But of course, much still needs to be done, as the President of Transparency International Cameroon Barrister Charles Nguini said yesterday while presenting the CPI in Yaounde.
The Index ranks countries on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. It is based on a 100-point "corruption perception" scale, where zero equals a "highly corrupt" perception and 100 means the country is perceived to be very clean
Denmark tops the chart this year, as least corrupt country, with 92 points on 100.
The most corrupt country in the world is Somalia.
China, Turkey and Angola – whose GDPs all grew by more than 4% last year – fell furthest in Transparency International’s 2014 corruption perception index, which measures the perceived levels of public-sector corruption worldwide. Corrupt officials undermine progress and destroy the public’s trust in their government, TI said.
Afghanistan, Ivory Coast and Egypt showed the most progress in reducing corruption, but all still ranked in the bottom half of the index.
Craig Fagan, TI’s head of policy, said the aim of the index was not to blame poorer countries for being more corrupt than industrialised ones. “This is not just pointing a finger at north and south or at developed versus developing. There are some ‘newly emerging’ countries that are towards the top of the list, that are good performers, and you have countries that are outperforming solid economies that [are] part of the G20,” such as Russia, which ranked 142 in the index, and India, at 87.
This indicates that Cameroon gained two points this year, as the country scored 25 points in 2013, and 26 points in 2012.
Cameroon has come a long way from its infamous number 1 spot in 1998 and 1999.
But of course, much still needs to be done, as the President of Transparency International Cameroon Barrister Charles Nguini said yesterday while presenting the CPI in Yaounde.
The Index ranks countries on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. It is based on a 100-point "corruption perception" scale, where zero equals a "highly corrupt" perception and 100 means the country is perceived to be very clean
Denmark tops the chart this year, as least corrupt country, with 92 points on 100.
The most corrupt country in the world is Somalia.
China, Turkey and Angola – whose GDPs all grew by more than 4% last year – fell furthest in Transparency International’s 2014 corruption perception index, which measures the perceived levels of public-sector corruption worldwide. Corrupt officials undermine progress and destroy the public’s trust in their government, TI said.
Afghanistan, Ivory Coast and Egypt showed the most progress in reducing corruption, but all still ranked in the bottom half of the index.
Craig Fagan, TI’s head of policy, said the aim of the index was not to blame poorer countries for being more corrupt than industrialised ones. “This is not just pointing a finger at north and south or at developed versus developing. There are some ‘newly emerging’ countries that are towards the top of the list, that are good performers, and you have countries that are outperforming solid economies that [are] part of the G20,” such as Russia, which ranked 142 in the index, and India, at 87.
4 comments:
wow make we continue to try
At least that's a start. We keep praying for a better Cameroon
Mangwineh@yahoo.co.uk
Ok...hope we will be out of the red in the near future
ok we have heard
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