{"id":17943,"date":"2012-12-05T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17943"},"modified":"2012-12-05T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:54:00","slug":"measuring-corruption-as-a-means-to-fight-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/measuring-corruption-as-a-means-to-fight-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring corruption as a means to fight it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/cpi2012\">2012 Corruption Perceptions Index<\/a>\u00a0is a useful reminder that no country is immune to the effects of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>As Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International notes in the video message below, &#8220;Looking at this year\u2019s Corruption Perceptions Index, few would fail to recognise corruption as a central major threat facing humanity, one that destroys lives and communities and undermines countries and institutions.&#8221; She adds, &#8220;People are more aware of the cost of corruption, generating anger that threatens to further destabilise societies and exacerbate violent conflicts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Corruption Perceptions Index scores countries on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). While no country has a perfect score, the majority of countries score below 50, indicating a serious corruption problem. This translates into human suffering, with poor families being extorted for bribes to see doctors or to get access to clean drinking water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/news\/feature\/measuring_corruption_as_a_means_to_fight_it?\" target=\"_blank\">Watch videos here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a02012 Corruption Perceptions Index\u00a0is a useful reminder that no country is immune to the effects of corruption. As Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International notes in the video message below, &#8220;Looking at this year\u2019s Corruption Perceptions Index, few would fail to recognise corruption as a central major threat facing humanity, one that destroys lives and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}