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CPI 2021: Trouble at the top - News [1]
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Date: 2022-08
Every year, countries at the top of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) earn bragging rights for lower bribery levels, better safeguards against embezzlement of public funds and greater accountability for government corruption.
But no country gets a perfect score, and corruption in countries at the top of the Index usually takes less flagrant forms. The line between politics and business often remains blurred. Inadequate controls on political finance, opaque lobbying, and the revolving doors between industries and their regulators are all-too-common even in best-performing countries.
As a measure of public sector corruption, the CPI does not capture issues related to financial secrecy and money laundering, or the role of the private sector in allowing the corrupt to safely hide and enjoy the proceeds of their crimes. In an increasingly globalised world, these are the types of problems that often help to keep lower-performing countries at the bottom of the Index.
Our latest analysis shows that unchecked transnational corruption also enables human rights violations around the world.
The consequences hit closer to home, too.
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