The Maldives has scored 43 and climbed up 14 points since last year, in the Corruption Perception Index 2020, released this Thursday by Transparency International.
The Corruption Perception Index is published annually by Transparency International. It ranks countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption evaluated through surveys and expert assessments.
In Corruption Perception Index 2020, Maldives scored 43 and ranked 75 out of 180 countries. Compared with the 2019 Index, the Maldives have climbed up 14 points in the score and 55 positions from country ranking. Although the Maldives achieved positive progress in Corruption Perception Index 2020, Maldives remains among the two-thirds of countries to score below 50.
With the release of the Corruption Perception Index 2020, referring to the progress the Maldives made compared to the 2019 Index, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has said that although the Maldives is nowhere near complete to root out corruption, it is encouraging to see that the anti-corruption efforts yielded good results.
In a statement released, Transparency Maldives has stated that despite the progress the Maldives has made in the recent past in the area of strengthening the legal framework, the data shows that the Maldives is still falling behind when it comes to effectively tackling corruption. Transparency Maldives also stated that an important takeaway from Corruption Perception Index 2020 is that while corruption differs in scale and scope across regions, it proved to be a Universal obstacle to effectively combating the pandemic.
The statement further reads that as the Maldives seeks to move towards adapting to the new normal and embark on recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, it is imperative to look back on how the Maldives is responding to the pandemic.
Following the release of Corruption Perception Index 2020, the Chair of Transparency International, Delia Ferrerira Rubio, said that the Covid-19 pandemic in the past year was as much a health and economic crisis as well as one of corruption that the world was failing to manage. Transparency International has stated that corruption often intensifies the effects of a crisis, and when combined with a public health emergency like Covid-19, poses a threat to lives and livelihoods.
In Corruption Perception Index 2020, Denmark and New Zealand topped with 88 points while Finland, Singapore, Switzerland, and Sweden followed behind with 85 points.
The Corruption Perception Index is published annually by Transparency International. It ranks countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption evaluated through surveys and expert assessments.
In Corruption Perception Index 2020, Maldives scored 43 and ranked 75 out of 180 countries. Compared with the 2019 Index, the Maldives have climbed up 14 points in the score and 55 positions from country ranking. Although the Maldives achieved positive progress in Corruption Perception Index 2020, Maldives remains among the two-thirds of countries to score below 50.
With the release of the Corruption Perception Index 2020, referring to the progress the Maldives made compared to the 2019 Index, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has said that although the Maldives is nowhere near complete to root out corruption, it is encouraging to see that the anti-corruption efforts yielded good results.
While our work to root out corruption is nowhere near complete, it is nevertheless encouraging to see that our anti-corruption efforts have yielded good results. In this year’s @anticorruption Corruption Perception Index 2020 we scored 43 - climbing 14 points in rank. https://t.co/h0iAdjbf0D
— Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (@ibusolih) January 28, 2021
In a statement released, Transparency Maldives has stated that despite the progress the Maldives has made in the recent past in the area of strengthening the legal framework, the data shows that the Maldives is still falling behind when it comes to effectively tackling corruption. Transparency Maldives also stated that an important takeaway from Corruption Perception Index 2020 is that while corruption differs in scale and scope across regions, it proved to be a Universal obstacle to effectively combating the pandemic.
The statement further reads that as the Maldives seeks to move towards adapting to the new normal and embark on recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, it is imperative to look back on how the Maldives is responding to the pandemic.
Following the release of Corruption Perception Index 2020, the Chair of Transparency International, Delia Ferrerira Rubio, said that the Covid-19 pandemic in the past year was as much a health and economic crisis as well as one of corruption that the world was failing to manage. Transparency International has stated that corruption often intensifies the effects of a crisis, and when combined with a public health emergency like Covid-19, poses a threat to lives and livelihoods.
In Corruption Perception Index 2020, Denmark and New Zealand topped with 88 points while Finland, Singapore, Switzerland, and Sweden followed behind with 85 points.
