Tunisia President's measures have weakened accountability, report says

Transparency International's annual report on the Global Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the degree of corruption in the public and governmental sectors in 180 countries around the world by using a score index consisting of a hundred degrees, included a part specific to the Arab world. The report concluded that the total corruption index in the region remained constant at 34 out of a hundred for the fourth year respectively and that none of the countries in the region recorded any progress in the situation of corruption during the past decade, describing Tunisia as an unfortunate example. Kinda Hattar, Regional Adviser for the Middle East at Transparency International, says that the stagnation of the index and the lack of change […]

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