ARMENIA’S CORRUPTION RATE WENT DOWN

news.am
Nov 17 2009
Armenia

Armenia ranks the 125th among 180 states in the annual global
corruption report. According to the Global Corruption Report 2009
of Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
ranks countries in terms of the degree to which businesspeople and
country analysts perceive corruption to exist among public officials
and politicians.

The countries were assessed on a scale from 1-to 10, the calculations
were conducted by three international organizations of the examined
states. According to Transparency International, Armenian office
Chairwoman Amalia Kostanyan, last year Armenia took the 114th place
in the rating. She considers that this fact is induced not by system
changes, but events that impact people’s mentality and therefore
public opinion.

Transparency International Executive Director Varuzhan Hoktanyan said:
"As compared to the last year, Armenia’s index reduced by 0.2 point,
making 2.7 points. The same tendency was registered in Azerbaijan
and Georgia, however the most dramatic reduction was fixed in Iran."

The lowest indexes-1.1 testifying the high corruption rate are
registered in Somali, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and Iraq, while
the highest index 9.4- in New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland
and Singapore.