Earlier this year Mr Mbeki dismissed the Transparency International corruption rankings for being based on mere perceptions.
In 2012 the watchdog Transparency International named Greece as the most corrupt country in the European Union.
The corruption watchdog Transparency International has put Equatorial Guinea in the top 12 of its list of most corrupt states.
In April, watchdog group Transparency International concluded in a report that revenue transparency for the international oil business is possible but not yet a common practice.
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 corruption watchdog Transparency International cut its ties with FIFA in 2011 when two of its recommendations -- that the investigator charged with overseeing FIFA would be compromised if he was paid by FIFA and that he should be allowed to investigate old corruption scandals -- were dropped.
Let's look at the U.S. Over the past few years, traditional measures of corruption, such as the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, have placed the U.S. among the least corrupt nations in the world, currently ranking No. 18 among 180 rated countries.
It is just this sort of argument that sends Peter Eigen, the founder of Transparency International, an anti-corruption pressure group based in Berlin, into paroxysms of high-minded rage.
"While no country scored a perfect score, the majority of countries scored below 50, indicating a serious corruption problem, " said Huguette Labelle, the chair of Transparency International, in a news release.
But in the rankings index of Transparency International, a Berlin-based lobby, African countries are generally perceived as being the most corrupt.
The Sri Lankan branch of the anti-corruption group Transparency International reviewed Sri Lanka's record on the fifth anniversary of the tsunami.
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It went to Luis Bates, who previously ran the local branch of Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog.
Or at least the test set by Transparency International about corporate transparency.
In the four years since Transparency International was founded (mostly by ex-World Bank officials), some 70 local chapters have opened, several in Asia.
To be effective, however, this agency needs clearer powers, says David Fleischer, who heads the Brazilian chapter of Transparency International, an anti-corruption group.
The Aliyev government is especially infamous for corruption, and Transparency International rates it as one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
Azerbaijan also gets a poor rating in the corruption index compiled by Transparency International.
The anti-corruption group Transparency International puts out an annual Corruption Perception Index.
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Perhaps the best, he says, is the Global Corruption Barometer survey by Transparency International, a not-for-profit outfit.
Earlier this month, Transparency International ranked Myanmar the fifth-worst in (perception of) public sector corruption among 176 countries.
In 2008 the country became a candidate of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - an international project meant to promote openness about government oil revenues - but failed to qualify by an April 2010 deadline.
Several NGOs, including Transparency International, reported that the visiting officials were also looking into the organisations' compliance with anti-extremist legislation.
Chad, which has been ruled by Idriss Deby since 1990, has been ranked by Transparency International as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
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Panama, in contrast, is not even the cleanest in Central America, according to Transparency International, a pressure group.
Although even Mr Eigen cannot claim sole responsibility for these things, Transparency International has established itself as the world's main anti-corruption lobbyist.
The United Arab Emirates is also building nuclear power reactors, four Korean light water rectors, in full transparency and with full support from the international community.
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Corruption watchdog Transparency International cut its ties with the body in 2011 when two of its recommendations -- that the investigator charged with overseeing FIFA would be compromised if he was paid by FIFA and that he should be allowed to investigate old corruption scandals -- were dropped.
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