KATHMANDU, Nov 17: Transparency International (TI), the global anti-corruption watchdog, said the level of perceived corruption in Nepal worsened in the year 2008.
"Malaysia, Nepal, the Maldives and Afghanistan, on the other hand, saw their scores decline, representing worsening levels of perceived corruption," TI said in its annual report released globally on Tuesday.
Nepal was ranked at 121 position of the index in 2008 but this position slipped to 143 position in the corruption barometer in 2009, according to TI. Only war-ravaged Afghanistan is behind Nepal in the index among the South Asian countries. Afghanistan ranked at 179 position has highest level of perceived corruption.
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I´m happy with the findings of TI, since it proves our suspicions; Maldives under the name of "first Democracy" is going through a period of rampant corruption and misuse of public funds.
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Abbas Adil Riza
This is bad but can expect for worse in the future to come. It is obvious to worsen corruption in Nepal. Because there are no industry and government is doing very little to lift level of people under poverty line. Moreover, in the past there were some 205 outlets. Now there are 601, 396 outlest were increased! In addition with interim constitution more and more officials are taking bribe openly. Politicians are busy in fighting for the chair and lower level officials are busy making quick
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