In last week’s article, we discussed the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and noted that that most of the 180 countries surveyed failed to bring about improvements in their scores and ranking. From a review of the results, it is evident that countries with very low scores are either war-torn or have authoritarian systems of government. In some cases, the Index does not appear to take into account recent events. Transparency International (TI) attributed this to data sources often taking time to catch up to real-life experiences and situations which could take a year or more to affect a country’s score.
