Corruption Index
USA at #17
Costa Rica at #51
Belize at #62
Mexico at #65
Panama at #65
Guatemala at #117
Nicaragua – Not listed
Corruption still rampant in 70 countries, says Corruption Perceptions Index 2005. London/Berlin, 18 October 2005
“Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming
it,”said Transparency International Chairman Peter Eigen. “The two
scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery.
Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in
freeing people from poverty.
“Corruption isn’t a natural disaster: it is the cold, calculated theft
of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect
themselves,”said David Nussbaum, TI’s Chief Executive. Leaders
must go beyond lip service and make good on their promises to provide the commitment
and resources to improve governance, transparency and accountability.
The lessons are clear: risk factors such as government secrecy, inappropriate
influence of elite groups and distorted political finance apply to both wealthy
and poorer countries, and no rich country is immune to the scourge of corruption.
Explanatory notes:
* CPI Score relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt).
** Confidence range provides a range of possible values of the CPI score. This
reflects how a country’s score may vary, depending on measurement precision. Nominally, with 5 percent probability the score is above this range and with another 5 percent it is below. However, particularly when only few sources (n) are available an unbiased estimate of the mean coverage probability is lower than the nominal value of 90%.
*** Surveys used refers to the number of surveys that assessed a country’s performance. 18 surveys and expert assessments were used and at least 3 were required for a country to be included in the CPI.
For exhaustive research on this topic, please visit Transparency
International Corruption Perceptions Index 2005.
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