Finds Transparency Int’l survey More than one in three South Asians say they were forced to bribe officials in the last year, mainly for services they were legally entitled to, an international anti-graft watchdog said yesterday. A survey released by Berlin-based Transparency International in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu showed bribery has become so endemic that ... Read more
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Bangladesh improves in graft status
Though Bangladesh stepped up one position to 13th from the bottom in this year’s corruption index (CPI), it failed to come out from the country list of unbridled corruption, Transparency International (TI) said in a release yesterday. On a scale from 1 to 10, the country has scored 2.7, only 0.3 points higher than last