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Nepal’s Perceived Level of Corruption Increases

Fall in the score to 33 also plunges Nepal’s global ranking to 117th position

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Nepal’s Perceived Level of Corruption Increases
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January 28: Nepal’s score at the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has further slipped to 33 in 2020 from 34 in 2019, indicating that the perceived levels of public sector corruption in the country has increased in last one year.

The fall in the score also plunged Nepal into 117th position in the global ranking in 2020’s index from 113th in 2019 out of 180 countries and territories included in the research by Transparency International.   

Transparency International uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the perceived levels of public sector corruption in the countries and territories included in the index where 0 is regarded as highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.

The deterioration of both score and ranking of Nepal indicates that the country’s corruption has become more prevalent and authorities failed to tackle the tackle the grafts, according to good governance experts.

Though the drop in the score or ranking does not necessarily mean the corruption has increased in Nepal, it reflects the perception of levels of public sector corruption among experts and businesspeople.

Transparency International, however, put Nepal in a list of significant improver in Asia Pacific based on the country’s progress in last 10 years. According to the CPI, Nepal’s score rose to 6 from the CPI 2012.

According to Transparency International, more than two-thirds of countries score below 50 on this year’s CPI, with an average score of just 43. 

As in the past, Denmark and New Zealand stood in the top of the CPI with 88 score while South Sudan and Somalia with scores of 12 each remained in the bottom.

In Asia, key economies such as India (40), Indonesia (37) and Bangladesh (26) experienced slow progress in anti-corruption efforts, with several government commitments to reform not yet materialising effectively, according to Transparency International.

 

 

 

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