The Philippines slipped 10 notches lower in the latest global corruption index falling to 95th rank from 85th erasing significant improvements over the past three years, an anti-corruption watchdog reported. The significant drop in the 2015 Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) dealt a big blow to the Aquino government’s anti-corruption efforts which saw marked improvements among 168 countries studied by the Germany-based watchdog in the past three years. In 2014, the Philippines ranked 85th, up from 94 in 2013, and 105 in 2012. The 2015 CPI report also showed a corresponding decline in the Philippines’ score to 35 from last year’s 38. The index tracks perceptions of public sector corruption in 168 nations and the watchdog says it’s calculated based on expert opinions. Each nation is assigned a score in which less corruption gets a higher number. This year’s survey puts Denmark on top as least corrupt and North [...]
