Feb 9, 2012
The Daily Beast
Despite a brutal crackdown, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is facing an ouster from opposition forces—but is his Syrian regime the world’s most corrupt? From Haiti to Uzbekistan, The Daily Beast finds the worst corruption in the world.
Just like Mitt Romney’s eventual succession to the top of the GOP heap, the Syrian revolution will succeed—that much is a foregone conclusion, writes former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley in The Daily Beast.
And when the revolution is over, thousands of deaths later, history will not look back kindly on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. One of the most consistent and damaging charges against Assad is simple: he runs an extraordinarily corrupt government, replete with nepotism, money laundering, and brutality. All that corruption got us wondering: is Syria the most corrupt country in the world?
To find the most corrupt countries, we considered five factors for more than 150 countries for which full data were available.
Corruption perception score: From the 2011 Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International, this measurement tells us the public perception of the corruption problem within each nation. On a 0-10 scale, with 10 being the best.
Free-press score: From the 2011 Freedom House Freedom of the Press Report. A 0-100 scale, with 0 being the best.
Political-rights score: Also from Freedom House, a 1-7 scale, with 1 being the best.
Civil-liberties score: From Freedom House, a 1-7 scale, with 1 being the best.
Business-transparency score: The most recent available from the World Bank, this measures a country’s transparency of business practices by how much businesses must disclose about ownership and financial information. On a 0-10 scale, with 10 being the best.
Final corruption score: Our final tally. We ranked each country within each category, then added the rankings and normalized the total on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the best.
So which continent has the most corrupt countries in the world? North America? South America? Asia? Africa? Europe? Read on to find out.
20. Cambodia
- Corruption-perception score (0-10 scale, higher is better): 2.1
- Free-press score (0-100 scale, lower is better): 63
- Political-rights score (1-7 scale, lower is better): 6
- Civil-liberties score (1-7 scale, lower is better): 5
- Business-transparency score (0-10 scale, higher is better): 5
- Final corruption score: 27.2
2 comments:
whatever! at least mention that cambodia is now putting in place anti-corruption law, etc. talk about biased report, here, really! who needs a biased report or biased people reporting this? get educated for a change, please! stop being biased toward cambodia forever, ok! cambodia is here on earth and we're here to stay, so get used to it, ok! god i hate biased and ignorant people, you know!
I'm SO Surprised to hear that!
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