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| Bangladesh falls one notch down to 12 |
| 2010-10-27 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh remains static in terms of curbing corruption, according to Transparency International's annual corruption perceptions index released yesterday. On a scale of 1 to 10, the country has scored 2.4, the same as it did last year. It, however, has moved up one place to 12th in the rankings from bottom. Of 178 countries in the 2010 index, Bangladesh has been ranked 134th. Last year, it was placed 13th from bottom and 139th from top among 180 countries. Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore have scored the highest 9.3, jointly holding the top position. Somalia has scored 1.1 to be at the bottom of the roll, which is designed to reflect the perceived perceptions of how corrupt a country is. "Ranking is not much important here, as it may change in relation to performance of the other countries. What is important is the score," said Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB). "We thought we would score higher as the ruling Awami League had some strong electoral pledges with regard to fight against corruption," he added. Iftekhar was unveiling the CPI 2010 at a press conference at National Press Club yesterday afternoon. In 2009, Bangladesh was among the nine best performers making a significant progress in curbing corruption, bettering its score to 2.4 from 2.1 the previous year. |
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