Poor nations fare badly in corruption survey
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A new survey by Transparency International (TI), an anti-graft organisation, also rated Nigeria, Chad, Myanmar, Azerbaijan and Paraguay among the world&#39;s most corrupt nations.
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Nigeria strongly criticises a survey ranking it as Africa's most corrupt country saying it is "fundamentally flawed".
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Political parties are the public institutions most marred by corruption, an international watchdog group said Thursday in a new global survey
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A failure to significantly reduce poverty and inequality is straining democracies across Latin America, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday.
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PARIS, Dec 11 (IPS) - Not many people around the world seem to believe  that corruption can be contained let alone eradicated, experts  said after a major international survey.
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Greece is on a par with Surinam and just above El Salvador in corruption, according to a survey of 146 states made public yesterday.
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LONDON, Sept. 26 -- Burma and Somalia have been ranked the most corrupt countries in Transparency International's 2007 index, which was released Wednesday.
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South Africa is slightly less corrupt than it was last year, but more corrupt than it was in both 2002 and 2001, according to figures released on Wednesday by the global anti-corruption
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The postwar reconstruction of Iraq could be ruined by rampant corruption, an international survey said on Wednesday. The survey, an annual list of countries held to be the most corrupt in their business dealings
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The Philippines is perceived by foreign businessmen as Asia&#39;s most corrupt economy, according to a survey Tuesday that also found countries were failing properly to tackle corruption.
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Multinational companies and financial institutions that use bribery and tolerate illicitly gained wealth are helping fuel corruption in the world's poorest countries, a global corruption watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Myanmar and Somalia have been ranked as the most corrupt nations in Transparency International's 2007 index, released Wednesday &#151; adding pressure to the Southeast Asian country's military regime as it faces the biggest anti-government protests in nearly two decades.
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Frustrated by the federal governmentâs method of determining who is poor, the Bloomberg administration is developing its own measure, saying it will offer a more accurate picture of poverty.
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Many electronic governance projects are failing globally due to poor planning, political interference and bureaucratic bungling, a top World Bank official said Friday.
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Many of the world's poorest countries lamented at a U.N. ministerial meeting Monday that some of the least developed nations are experiencing increases in extreme poverty.
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Developing nations fear that U.N. policies dictated by their wealthy counterparts have blocked efforts to fight poverty and warned that the failure to improve life for the world's poor would only perpetuate terrorism.
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The anti-corruption watchdog group, Transparency International, has ranked Bangladesh and Haiti as the world&#39;s most corrupt countries in its annual report.