The Dominican Republic ranks second for the second time among countries with the highest levels of corruption, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.
The index report, published on Thursday by Citizen Participation, points out that the country remained in 2020 with the same score on the previous year’s perception of corruption, with 28 points out of 100 when ranking 137th out of 180 participating nations.
The general coordinator of citizen participation, Sonia Díaz, commented that the country failed to reach the 51 points proposed as a 2020 target.
Díaz added that the index points out that most countries have made little or no progress in the fight against corruption and many of them have scored below 50% on two consecutive occasions.
Transparency international ranking
The highest scores on the corruption index correspond to Denmark and New Zealand with 88 basis points each, followed by Finland, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland with 85 basis points each, Díaz reported during a press conference.
The best and the worst
In the Americas, the best indices are for Canada with 77 points, Uruguay with 71 and Chile and the United States with 67 each.
The countries with the lowest scores on the continent are Venezuela with 15, Haiti with 18, Nicaragua with 22, Honduras with 24, Guatemala with 25 and Paraguay and the Dominican Republic with 28. Díaz said that in the case of the Dominican Republic, the highest The maximum score obtained by the country at the beginning of the measurement was 25 points in 2012, while the lowest was 28 in three years: 2009, 2019 and 2020.
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The report recommends that in order to combat COVID-19, it is essential that countries strengthen surveillance so that resources reach those who need them most.
“The report suggests that anti-corruption bodies and the supervisory commission should have sufficient funds and independence,” said Sonia Diaz.