{"id":41709,"date":"2018-02-26T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=41709"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:05:15","slug":"corruption-perceptions-index-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/corruption-perceptions-index-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption Perceptions Index- 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- What is India position in &#8216;Global Corruption Perception Index, 2017&#8217; released by Transparency International on February 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2018?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 80<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\n(b) 85<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\n(c) 81<sup>st<\/sup><br \/>\n(d) 75<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (c)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On February 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2018 Transparency International released the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual Corruption Perception Index, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100.<\/li>\n<li>In this regard 0 is for highly corrupt and 100 is for very clean.<\/li>\n<li>This year, the index found that more than two-thirds of countries score below 50, with an average score of 43.<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand (Score-89) is at the top in this year index.<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand is followed by Denmark (Score-88), Finland (Score-85), Norway (Score-85) and Switzerland (Score-85) jointly at third position and Singapore (Score-84) and Sweden (Score-84) jointly at sixth place.<\/li>\n<li>In this index, Somalia (score 9) is at 180<sup>th<\/sup> rank (last), the most corrupt country.<\/li>\n<li>In the index prior to Somalia there are South Sudan (Score-12) 179<sup>th<\/sup> rank, Syria (Score-14) 178<sup>th<\/sup> rank, Afghanistan (Score-15) 177<sup>th<\/sup> rank, Yemen (Score-16) and Sudan (Score-16) jointly at175<sup>th <\/sup><\/li>\n<li>India is at 81<sup>st<\/sup> position in the index-2017 jointly tied with Ghana, Morocco and Turkey (Turkey). The index score of these 4 countries is 40.<\/li>\n<li>In last year&#8217;s index, India was at the 79<sup>th<\/sup> position with a score of 40 jointly with Belarus, Brazil and China.<\/li>\n<li>Bhutan (Score-67) 26<sup>th<\/sup>, China (Score-41) 77<sup>th<\/sup>, Sri Lanka (Score-38) 91<sup>st<\/sup>, Pakistan (Score-32) 117<sup>th<\/sup>, Nepal (Score-31) 122th and Bangladesh (Score- 28) are at 143<sup>rd<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>In this index other developed countries of the world are ranked as United Kingdom (Score-82) 8<sup>th<\/sup>, Germany (Score-81) 12<sup>th<\/sup>, US (Score-75) 16<sup>th<\/sup>, and Japan (Score-73) 20<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>It is known that this index is being released annually since 1995.<\/li>\n<li>Transparency International is an international non-governmental organization which emphasizes corruption prevention etc.<\/li>\n<li>Its headquarters is in Berlin, Germany.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/news\/feature\/corruption_perceptions_index_2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/news\/feature\/corruption_perceptions_index_2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- What is India position in &#8216;Global Corruption Perception Index, 2017&#8217; released by Transparency International on February 21st, 2018? (a) 80th (b) 85th (c) 81st (d) 75th Answer- (c)\u00a0 Related Facts: On February 21st, 2018 Transparency International released the 23rd Annual Corruption Perception Index, 2017. 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