India less corrupt than China: Survey

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

NEW DELHI: India ranks less corrupt than China for the first time in 18 years, anti-graft organisationTransparency International's annual surveysays.

The study that includes 175 countries and territories, India was ranked 85 while China came at 100, the Corruption Perceptions Index 2014 said.

The Corruption Perceptions Index says that the countries and territories are ranked based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory's score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

The report rates Denmark as the least corrupt country with a score of 92. Somalia and North Korea jointly have been rated as the most corrupt countries with scores of eight.

(Corruption Perceptions Index 2014: Results)

India less corrupt than China: Survey - The Times of India

 

[Ryuzaki]

Is it actually possible to measure corruption?

 

[INDIAISM]

That's what happens when you don't have so called "Self Certified Sickular" not ruling the country....

 

[TankMan]

Is it actually possible to measure corruption?

the countries and territories are ranked based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be

Not really. The survey is based solely on how corrupt the countries' governments are "perceived" to be. But Transparency International does not specify whose perceptions it is talking about.

"Each year we score countries on how corrupt their public sectors are seen to be. Our Corruption Perceptions Index sends a powerful message and governments have been forced to take notice and act.

Behind these numbers is the daily reality for people living in these countries. The index cannot capture the individual frustration of this reality, but it does capture the informed views of analysts, businesspeople and experts in countries around the world."
Research - CPI - Overview

"Informed views of analysts, businesspeople and experts" - very vague. Is it foreign experts' opinions? That would explain how they got information for North Korea, considering that their government wouldn't allow their own people to say that it is the second most corrupt country in the world.

And If the Chinese really are so big on censorship (as the mainstream Western media would have you believe), one wonders where these experts get their 'informed views' from- whether they are actually based on anything concrete or just ''perceptions''.

At the end of the day, this index means nothing.

 

[24 Hours]

I wonder what this means for President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

I wonder what this means for President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.

It means the more dirty laundry you hang in your backyard, the more people think you have a lot of dirty laundry, in other words, the more China is fighting corruption, the more the media (Chinese and foreign) are focusing on the topic, the more people perceive there is more corruption.

 

[IndoCarib]

Evil Modi at it again. Intolerence against corruption has risen. I dread to even think of our future under Modi !