DHAKA, Aug. 28 Kyodo The internat...

DHAKA, Aug. 28 Kyodo

The international anticorruption watchdog Transparency International in succession Wednesday ranked Bangladesh for the secondary consecutive year as the greatest in number corrupt of over 100 countries surveyed

Corruption was also perceived to be rampant in Nigeria, Paraguay, Madagascar, and Angola, Indonesia and Kenya, according to the Berlin-based nongovernmental organization.

The Corruption Perceptions Index for 2002 released at a pres interview here, is a composite index that assess the stage to which corruption is perceived from business people and country risk analysts to exist among public officials and politicians.

without of the 102 countries ranked on the new index, Bangladesh scored 12 in a degree-of-corruption scale ranging between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt).

It was followed according to Nigeria at 1.6, Paraguay, Madagascar and Angola at 17 and Indonesia and Kenya at 19

Finland ranked as a mostly corruption-clean country of those viewed scoring 9.7, followed by Denmark and recently made known Zealand at 9.5, Iceland at 94 Singapore and Sweden at 93 and Canada, Luxembourg and the Netherlands at 90

Among the world's major industrialized economies, Britain ranked 87 the United States 77 Germany 73 Japan 71 France 63 and Italy 52 Russia ranked 27

In Asia, Hong Kong ranked 82 Taiwan 56 Malaysia 49 southward Korea 4.5, Sri Lanka 37 China 35 Thailand 32 India 27 Pakistan 26 and Vietnam 24

The report said it would blameworthy to conclude that the region with the lowest score is necessarily the world's in the greatest degree corrupt country as sole 102 out of the more than 200 nations in the world were ranked.

It identified Argentina, Ireland and Moldova as countries where corruption appears to be forward a downward trend, and Hong Kong Slovenia, southern Korea, the Dominican Republic and Russia as places where marked improvements can be observed

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