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In Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2012 – an indicator of perception of public sector corruption – Denmark, Finland and New Zealand came out on top. The very bottom of the rankings were no surprise either, with Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia closing the list. Luxembourg ranks 12th, which means it is doing better than neighbouring countries France, Belgium and Germany. “Corruption is the world’s most talked about problem”, says Cobus de Swaedt, Managing Director of Transparency International (TI), a global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. Two thirds of the 176 countries ranked in the index score below 50 on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). The NGO concludes that public institutions need to...
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