The results of Transparency International (TI)’s 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index continue to show a high variance in public sector corruption across the Asia Pacific region. With a scale of 0 to 100, where 100 means very clean and 0 reflects a deep-rooted, systemic corruption problem, the Asia Pacific countries, on average, are failing. TI said that unfortunately, the results from the 2017 index also show that corruption in many countries is still strong. This year’s results show slow and imperfect progress across the Asia Pacific region. Whistleblower protection mechanisms and autonomous, well-resourced anti-corruption agencies are also a must in the Asia Pacific region.

Source: Sunday Times February 22, 2018 03:33 UTC