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South Asian Nations Among The World's Most Corrupt
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 27, 2010: The Berlin-based Transparency International in its report released on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, says several South Asian nations are perceived to be among the world's most corrupt, with Afghanistan ranking as the second most corrupt country in the world the VOA news of October 26, 2010 says. Among the South Asian countries, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan got a score of 1.6 on the group's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of 2010. Kyrgyzstan was ranked as the region's next most corrupt, followed by Tajikistan, Nepal and Pakistan, which ranked 2.3. India has a score of 3.3. Bhutan received a 5.7, making it South Asia's least corrupt nation. Afghanistan and Burma both received a 1.4 tying for second next to Somalia as the most corrupt nation in the world in a ranking of 178 nations.
Perceptions have been used to rank corruption because graft is largely hidden and difficult to measure; over time, the perceptions have proven to be a reliable estimate of corruption, the Transparency International says.
