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Vietnam's corruption ranking improves amid global stagnation: survey
Vietnam's corruption ranking improves amid global stagnation: survey
22/2/18
The country's intensified fight against corruption has boosted public confidence, but it still ranks in the bottom half globally.
Public confidence in Vietnam's fight against corruption
has improved for a second straight year, according to a new global survey.
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released by
Transparency International on Wednesday, ranks Vietnam at 107th out of 180
economies based on perceptions of experts and businesspeople.
Vietnam scored 35 on a scale
based on 0 for deep-rooted, systemic corruption and 100 for a very clean
environment. Last year, it was ranked 113th out of 176 countries and
territories with a score 33, an improvement from 31 in 2012.
The country’s corruption crackdown intensified last year, with scores of
businesspeople and former government officials jailed, a factor that boosted
consumer optimism for 2018, according to a Financial
Times survey.
Vietnam remained in the
bottom half of the 2017 CPI, but was one of the few countries that showed signs
of improvement. The majority of economies had made no progress in their efforts
to end corruption, the survey found.
More than two-thirds of countries scored below 50, with an
average score of 43.
Among the top 10, led by New
Zealand, only Luxembourg saw its score go up from
81 to 82, while the rest either remained unchanged or fell.
In Asia Pacific, Transparency International expressed
serious concerns over freedom of press and shrinking civic space.
It singled out the Philippines,
India and the Maldives as
countries that have fewer press freedoms and higher numbers of journalist
deaths. In the last six years, 15 journalists working on corruption stories in
these countries were murdered, as reported by the Committee to Protect
Journalists (CPJ).
At the same time, civil society organizations in Cambodia, Papua
New Guinea and China are permanently under threat
from authorities, it said.
Transparency International stressed that the media are
vital to combating corruption, calling for governments to encourage free speech
and independent media.
It said international donors should also consider press
freedom relevant to development aid or access to international organizations.
Active disclosure of public interest information,
including government budgets, company ownership, public procurement and
political party finances, also helps in the corruption fight, it said.
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