Question: What is India’s rank in the ‘2021 Global Bribery Risk List’?
(a) 82nd
(b) 89th
(c) 77th
(d) 92nd
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:
- India Slips Five Positions in the 2021 Global Bribery Risk Rankings, Placed 82nd.
- India ranked 82nd with a score of 44, whereas, in 2020, India had ranked 77 with a score of 45.
- However, India performed better than Pakistan, China, Nepal and Bangladesh.
- Meanwhile, Bhutan was ranked 20 places above India, at 62nd.
- An anti-bribery standard setting organisation, known as TRACE, measures business bribery risk in 194 countries, territories, and autonomous and semi-autonomous regions.
- North Korea, Turkmenistan, Venezuela and Eritrea posed the highest commercial bribery risk, while Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and New Zealand had the lowest.
BY: AMIT GUPTA