Corruption Perception Index
QUESTION
The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is a comparative assessment of a country’s integrity performance along with related academic research on corruption. Provide a description of this index and its ranking. Identify the five countries with the lowest and five with highest CPI scores according to this index.
1.0 INTRODUCTION Ethics is accepted principles of right or wrong that govern the conduct of a person, the members of a profession and the actions of an organization. There are five ethical issues which are employment practices, human rights, environmental regulations, corruption and the moral obligation of multinational companies. Corruption means misusing public office for personal gain for example, by accepting bribes or by charging personal expenditure to a public expenses account. Besides that, there are several types of corruption that found in local government which are extortion, embezzlement and bribery. Extortion is threatening or inflicting harm to a person, their reputation, or their property in order to unjustly obtain money, actions, services or other goods from that person such as blackmail. Embezzlement in other hands is the illegal taking or appropriation of money or property that has been entrusted to a person but is actually owned by another. In political terms this is called graft which is when a political office holder unlawfully uses public funds for personal purposes. Moreover bribery is offering something to the other person in terms of money or goods and services in order to gain an unfair advantage. Transparency International is the global civil society organization that leading the fight against corruption. They publish the Corruption perception index (CPI) annually. CPI ranks the countries or territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. It also reflects the views of observers from around the world. The results are based on the surveys and assessments, either business people opinion surveys
The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is a comparative assessment of a country’s integrity performance along with related academic research on corruption. Provide a description of this index and its ranking. Identify the five countries with the lowest and five with highest CPI scores according to this index.
1.0 INTRODUCTION Ethics is accepted principles of right or wrong that govern the conduct of a person, the members of a profession and the actions of an organization. There are five ethical issues which are employment practices, human rights, environmental regulations, corruption and the moral obligation of multinational companies. Corruption means misusing public office for personal gain for example, by accepting bribes or by charging personal expenditure to a public expenses account. Besides that, there are several types of corruption that found in local government which are extortion, embezzlement and bribery. Extortion is threatening or inflicting harm to a person, their reputation, or their property in order to unjustly obtain money, actions, services or other goods from that person such as blackmail. Embezzlement in other hands is the illegal taking or appropriation of money or property that has been entrusted to a person but is actually owned by another. In political terms this is called graft which is when a political office holder unlawfully uses public funds for personal purposes. Moreover bribery is offering something to the other person in terms of money or goods and services in order to gain an unfair advantage. Transparency International is the global civil society organization that leading the fight against corruption. They publish the Corruption perception index (CPI) annually. CPI ranks the countries or territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. It also reflects the views of observers from around the world. The results are based on the surveys and assessments, either business people opinion surveys