Transparency International" has ranked FYRMacedonia on the 62nd spot in this year's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) with 4.1 index score, which represents an improvement by nine spots compared to 2009. "Macedonia has continually registered a CPI improvement, but is still in the group of conuntries under five index points and there is still a lot to be done to achieve better perception", assessed Tursday Slagjana Taseva, president of Transparency Zero Corruption.
FYRMacedonia shares the 62nd spot with Croatia, Ghana, Samoa. In comparison with regional peers, Macedonia falls behind Turkey (56), but is ahead of Montenegro (69), Serbia (78), Albania (88), Bosnia&Herzegovina (91) and Kosovo (110). "Three-quarters of the 178 countries encompassed in the survey have an CPI lower than five. Declarative pledges in a large number of countries facing serious problems with high level of corruption do not yield results, whereas anti-corruption measures need to be implemented", assessed Taseva.
She announced Transparency International would release a report next year with a more realistic presentation of corruption, not its perception, for which a reevaluation of the methodology has been launched. "With governments committing huge sums to tackle the world’s most pressing problems, from the instability of financial markets to climate change and poverty, corruption remains an obstacle to achieving much needed progress", says "Transparency International" in its report.
The 2010 CPI, a measure of domestic, public sector corruption, includes a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 10 (perceived to have low levels of corruption), indicating a serious corruption problem.
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