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corruptionThis post is not about the Consumer Price Index although that would also make a good topic due to the increasing price of almost all of the things that we buy today but this post is about corruption perception index for Malaysia.

NST online reported today that Malaysia’s corruption perception index unchanged but our ranking has dropped from 43rd place to 47th place out of 180 countries. Maintaining the score of 5.1 achieved last year somehow does not put Malaysia on a better ranking. That can only mean some other countries out there have achieved a better score than us and that would also mean that they have managed to fight corruption better than us.

Despite the big hooha recently where lots of people being hauled by the ACA, things have not been improving as far as the perception index is concerned.

“What the latest findings show is that what the government has done so far to eradicate corruption has failed to make an impact,” Navaratnam told a press conference during which he released the results of the Transparency International’s survey on corruption. “People don’t believe any of these changes are real or meaningful.”

Let’s learn a bit about the CPI. The CPI currently rates 180 countries with a rating from 0 (highly corrupt) to 10 (clean). The cleanest countries in the world with a score of 9.3 are Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden. Our neighbor, Singapore scored 9.2 and that’s why they have moved far ahead of us in terms of almost everything while we are still busy with our political feuds…

The worst 3 countries in the survey were Haiti (1.4), Iraq (1.3) and Somalia (1.0). I guess that explains why there are so many pirates in Somalia hijacking ships these days in the Gulf of Aden…

So why are we still “dirty” compared to a country such as Singapore?  Why corruption still one of the biggest problems in this country despite the leaders so called efforts to fight it? So, I wonder what and who contributed to Malaysia’s low score in the survey…

Anybody wants to raise his or her hand and admit that he or she is the culprit? It will be interesting to find out the mechanics behind the CPI survey so that we know why we did not do that well.

Updated on September 25, 2008 at 1:33am:

You can check the full listing at http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2008.

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