{"id":1605,"date":"2021-01-30T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2021-02-06T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T08:15:10","slug":"armenia-continues-to-rise-in-global-corruption-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/armenia-continues-to-rise-in-global-corruption-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Continues to Rise in Global Corruption Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armenia has further improved its position in an annual survey of corruption perceptions around the world conducted by Transparency International<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It ranked, together with Jordan and Slovakia, 60th out of 180 countries and territories evaluated in the Berlin-based watchdog\u2019s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Armenia and two other countries shared 77th place in the previous CPI released a year ago. Transparency International assigned the South Caucasus state a CPI \u201cscore\u201d of 42 out of 100 at the time. The watchdog raised the score to 49 in the latest survey.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the second largest [CPI score] increase in the world after Maldives,\u201d it said in an explanatory note.<\/p>\n

Armenia was 105th in the corruption perception rankings two years ago. It still trails neighboring Georgia but is ahead of its three other neighbors: Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey. Georgia occupies 45th place in the 2020 CPI.<\/p>\n

\u201cA country to watch last year, Armenia has taken a gradual approach to reform, resulting in steady and positive improvements in anti-corruption,\u201d says a Transparency International report.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, safeguarding judicial independence and ensuring checks and balances remain critical first steps in its anti-corruption efforts,\u201d it adds. \u201cThe effectiveness of those efforts is additionally challenged by the current political and economic crisis as a result of a recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the subsequent protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over a ceasefire deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pashinyan has repeatedly claimed to have eliminated \u201csystemic corruption\u201d since coming to power in May 2018. Armenian law-enforcement authorities have launched dozens of high-profile corruption investigations during his rule. They mostly target former top government officials and individuals linked to them.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month the Armenian parliament began debating a government bill that calls for the creation of a special law-enforcement agency tasked with investigating corruption cases. The government also plans to set up new courts dealing only with such cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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