Corruption and social inequality are reinforcing each other around the world, leading to popular disenchantment with political establishments, an anticorruption watchdog group said on Jan. 25 as it released its annual corruption index.
More than two-thirds of the 176 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 scored below 50 on a scale ranging from zero, perceived to be highly corrupt, to 100, perceived to be very clean.
