Transparency International, a global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, publishes an annual Global Corruption Report, which “documents in unique detail the many corruption risks for businesses, ranging from small entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa to multinationals from Europe and North America.”
This year’s report presents a clear message: “After a first broad wave of anti-corruption activism and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, business worldwide now has a clearer responsibility, more profound self-interest and greater potential to assume a vital role in the fight against corruption.”
Cuba ranks 65th and scoring 4.3 in the reports’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2008. Score ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt).
The Index “ranks countries in terms of the degree to which businesspeople and country analysts perceive corruption to exist among public officials and politicians.” Six surveys were used to rank the island and placing a low confidence range between 3.6 and 4.8.
[H/T: Fernando Ravsberg]