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Mongolia ranks at 103rd in Corruption Perception Index 2017
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Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ On February 22, the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2017 was released today by the Transparency International, which marks its 25th anniversary this year.
Mongolia ranks 103rd with score of 36.It was ranked at 72nd in 2015 and 87th in 2016. Therefore it means Mongolia drew back by 16 positions in 2017 compared to the previous year. The index, which ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businessmen, uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. This year, the index found that more than two-thirds of countries score below 50, with an average score of 43.
One of the factors that influenced Mongolia to draw back connects with weakening impartiality of auditing and courts. It is considered that slow process of resolving corruption cases at trials, dismissals without penalty and uncompensated state losses affected to weaken people’s confidence in combat with corruption.
“Under general recommendations of the Transparency International, the legislative, executive, and judicial governance need to create a legal environment against corruption, judges and prosecutors need to make fair decisions, independence should be strengthened, governmental organizations should not create a corruption environment, and artificial bureaucracy and corruption risks, free competition in business needs to be formed, procurement and budget expenditure need to be accountable and transparent. If the recommendations are implemented, the corruption index can be increased”, said the executive director of the ‘Transparency International Mongolia’, O.Batbayar.
Despite the lowered rank, Mongolia’s scores in the Bertelsmann Foundation Transformation Index and the Varieties of Democracy were higher than in the 2016, which shows that the government started to fight the corruption and it is possible to reduce corruption with public participation and control.
“Under general recommendations of the Transparency International, the legislative, executive, and judicial governance need to create a legal environment against corruption, judges and prosecutors need to make fair decisions, independence should be strengthened, governmental organizations should not create a corruption environment, and artificial bureaucracy and corruption risks, free competition in business needs to be formed, procurement and budget expenditure need to be accountable and transparent. If the recommendations are implemented, the corruption index can be increased”, said the executive director of the ‘Transparency International Mongolia’, O.Batbayar.
Despite the lowered rank, Mongolia’s scores in the Bertelsmann Foundation Transformation Index and the Varieties of Democracy were higher than in the 2016, which shows that the government started to fight the corruption and it is possible to reduce corruption with public participation and control.
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