"Everything rises and falls on leadership, " he said of the country, ranked 150 on Transparency International's corruption perceptions index.
What is interesting is that those resource companies score very well on the tests: this is in part because the agitation by Transparency International in recent years has been quite successful in getting them to sign up to reveal the information.
The Sri Lankan branch of the anti-corruption group Transparency International reviewed Sri Lanka's record on the fifth anniversary of the tsunami.
So today I call on the Bush administration, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund to begin immediately crafting transparency guidelines for these sovereign wealth funds.
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In December, China fell to the 80th spot out of 176 countries rated for their perceived levels of corruption on the annual global ranking by Berlin-based NGO Transparency International.
Transparency International has put the tiny nation on its list of top 10 corrupt states.
Earlier this year Mr Mbeki dismissed the Transparency International corruption rankings for being based on mere perceptions.
Transparency International ranks Russia as the worst nations on earth in terms of human rights.
Corruption further exacerbates discontent among the population, with Angola ranked 168th out of 183 countries on Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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International health experts have commended China on its transparency in reporting the spread of the virus, in sharp contrast to its handling of a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003, when 8, 096 people were infected worldwide and 744 died.
Chad was recently ranked the most corrupt of 21 African countries in a survey on good governance criteria by Transparency International.
The Berlin-based non-governmental anti-corruption organization Transparency International has persistently rated Russia as one of the most corrupt nations on earth, and the worst among the BRIC nations Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Angola ranked 168th out of 183 countries on Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, and was 148th out of 187 countries in the U.N.
He argued that "maximum value for money from every pound" would be achieved by introducing "greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results" to the work of the Department for International Development (DfID).
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