{"id":131120,"date":"2022-02-01T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T08:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=131120"},"modified":"2022-02-01T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T08:59:23","slug":"curruption-perception-index-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/curruption-perception-index-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Curruption Perception Index, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question \u2013 \u2018Corruption Perception Index 2021\u2019 was released by Transparency International in January 2022. With reference to this, consider the following statements:<br>(i) 180 countries have been ranked in this index.<br>(ii) Denmark, Finland and New Zealand jointly topped the index.<br>(iii) India ranked 85th in this.<br>Which of the above statement(s) is\/are correct?<br><\/strong>(a) only (i) and (ii)<br>(b) only (ii) and (iii)<br>(c) only (i) and (iii)<br>(d) all of the above<br><strong>Answer\u2014(d)<br>Related facts\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u2018Corruption Perception Index 2021\u2019 was released by Transparency International in January 2022.<\/li><li><strong>Key Points &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>A total of 180 countries\/regions have been ranked in this index.<\/li><li>This index is expanded from 0 to 100, with 0 meaning most corrupt and 100 meaning most honest.<\/li><li>Denmark, Finland and New Zealand jointly topped the index.<\/li><li>Their combined score was 88.<\/li><li>It was followed by Norway, Singapore, Sweden (with a score of 85) in joint fourth place.<\/li><li>Switzerland (Score-84) and Netherlands (Score-82) were ranked 7th and 8th respectively.<\/li><li>Luxembourg (Score-81) and Germany (Score-80) finished 9th and 10th respectively.<\/li><li>In this index, South Sudan has got the lowest position (180th).<\/li><li>Of course, it is the most corrupt country.<\/li><li>India was jointly ranked 85th (score-40) along with Maldives in this index.<\/li><li>Whereas last year India was ranked 86th (score-40) in this index.<\/li><li>Among India&#8217;s neighboring countries, Bhutan was ranked 25th, China 66th, Sri Lanka 102nd, Nepal 117th, Pakistan 140th and Bangladesh 147th.<\/li><li>Among other major countries of the world, UK was ranked 11th, Australia and Japan 18th, France 22nd and USA 27th.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Pankaj Pandey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2021<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/images.transparencycdn.org\/images\/CPI2021_Report_EN-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/images.transparencycdn.org\/images\/CPI2021_Report_EN-web.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question \u2013 \u2018Corruption Perception Index 2021\u2019 was released by Transparency International in January 2022. With reference to this, consider the following statements:(i) 180 countries have been ranked in this index.(ii) Denmark, Finland and New Zealand jointly topped the index.(iii) India ranked 85th in this.Which of the above statement(s) is\/are correct?(a) only (i) and (ii)(b) only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-131120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131122,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131120\/revisions\/131122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}