India ranked 88th on corruption index

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Sleaze watchdog Transparency International has placed India 88th in a list of 159 countries surveyed for the level of corruption. India ranks weay below United States, Norway and Australia in the list topped by Iceland. India emerged seven ranks lower than its neighbour Sri Lanka rated 82nd.

Chad, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan and Myanmar were perceived as the most corrupt countries in the world.

Transparency International said in its annual report on Tuesday that serious levels of corruption existed in two thirds of the 159 countries surveyed, and that there was a clear link between poverty and corruption.

Most of the countries that landed at the bottom of the list were African countries, while those which came in at the top were industrialized Asian and western countries, according to Berlin-based Transparency International.

The nations perceived as the most corrupt also rank among the world's poorest, which shows how corruption and poverty feed off each other, according to the organization's 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).


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