Malaysia moves up a notch in 2018 TI corruption index
Transparency International today released its 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), with Malaysia scoring an unchanged 47 points from 2017, but improving its ranking by one notch from to 61 among 180 countries.
"The ranking depends on the overall performance of all the 180 countries. Japan also maintained the same score, but their ranking improved two steps...
Transparency International today released its 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), with Malaysia scoring an unchanged 47 points from 2017, but improving its ranking by one notch from to 61 among 180 countries.
"The ranking depends on the overall performance of all the 180 countries. Japan also maintained the same score, but their ranking improved two steps.
“In the case of Taiwan, there is no improvement on their score, but they dropped two spots in the ranking," Transparency International Malaysia president Akhbar Satar explained at a conference in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon.
Akhbar said that if Putrajaya's fight against corruption could be reflected in next year's CPI rankings if the current momentum is kept up.
"Sometimes one score can move our ranking two or four steps, so if the Pakatan Harapan government wants Malaysia to rank 10th out of 180 countries, I think there is a possibility, provided the new government makes sure we do not follow the ways of the last regime."
Malaysia is ranked third among Southeast Asian countries, behind Singapore and Brunei.
CPI measures include the effectiveness of the prosecution of corrupt officials, the government's ability to enforce integrity mechanisms, the existence of adequate laws on financial disclosure, conflict of interest prevention and access to information, as well as legal protections for whistleblowers, journalists and investigators.
The index is calculated by drawing on 13 surveys and expert assessments on the perceived level of corruption in a given country's public sector.
Sources of calculation include studies from the World Bank, Freedom House, The Economist, World Justice Project and World Economic Forum.
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