KATHMANDU: Global anti-graft watchdog declares South Asia the world’s most corrupt region.
Asia pacific director at Transparency International (TI) Srirak Pilpat said that, South Asia is now the world’s worst corrupt region.
Answering a question Pilpat said that, “How does a region with such strong economic growth still have such high levels of poverty? It is corruption.
He pointed out, South Asia’s leaders run the risk that future growth only benefits the powerful, doing nothing to help the half billion South Asians, who still live in poverty,”.
Transparency International said in the first comprehensive study on transparency and corruption prevention in the region.
The report analyzed how well 70 national institutions in Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka stop corruption.
According to Transparency International, Nepal improved from 139th position in 2012 to 116th in 2013 out of 177 countries surveyed in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) made public on Wednesday.
90 per cent of Nepalese believe that political parties are corrupt or extremely corrupt and 85 per cent consider public officials and public servants to be corrupt or extremely corrupt, Transparency International reported.
Interestingly, 72 per cent believe that corruption in the country has increased over last two years.
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