{"id":33585,"date":"2014-12-03T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33585"},"modified":"2014-12-03T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:27:42","slug":"phl-ranks-85th-in-corruption-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/03\/phl-ranks-85th-in-corruption-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Phl ranks 85th in corruption index"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33008\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33008 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"audit economy stock invest investigate\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The country improved its 94th rank in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) last year, placing 85th out of 175 countries for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>On a scale of 1 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), the country was scored 38 by the Transparency International.<\/p>\n<p>While the country still belongs to the lower two-thirds of 175 countries, the data shows an improvement from last year\u2019s CPI ranks.<\/p>\n<p>For 2013, the Philippines only scored 36 while it scored 34 last 2012 and was placed in the 105th rank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consider a +4 to represent change in the perceived level of corruption,\u201d Cleo Calimbahin, executive director of Transparency International said.<\/p>\n<p>Calimbahin said that both the public and the private sector leaders must continue pushing for transparency, good governance and inclusive growth.<\/p>\n<p>They must also remain firm on their move to prosecute corrupt officials to ensure proper and honest public service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the international community is expecting more reform initiatives from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The country improved its 94th rank in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) last year, placing 85th out of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}