Corruption, Italy getting worse

For Transparency International is the place 67th
The Beautiful Country, the world's top fair, slips four positions compared to 2009 and ends behind Rwanda and Samoa. The United States out of the top twenty, only winning the 22nd step

ROME - Bad news for corruption theme in the Bel Paese. According to the NGO Transparency International ranking, prepared and presented this morning by analyzing 178 countries, Italy slipped to 67th place in the index on corruption. Our country is set back four positions compared to 2009 and as many as 12 on 2008.

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is considered far more credible in the world to measure corruption in the public sector. In addition to cases of corruption in the strict sense, affect the CPI all issues of mismanagement of public at large that occur in the country, a very large extent at the local level. In fact, health care (administered by the Regions) is the sector where most poor governance manifests itself. And the CPI recorded that the credibility outside Italy on corruption is decreasing and that the alarm on domestic social issue is growing.
Countries receive a score from zero to 10 (with zero indicating high levels of corruption and 10 low). Italy is in 67th place with a score of 3.9 worsened compared to 2009 (when it was in 63rd place with a score of 4.3) and 2008 (at 55th place with 4.8).Better than we do and Rwanda Samoa. The most honest countries are more peaceful: Denmark and New Zealand. At the bottom, the countries devastated by war (Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia) or ruled by a military junta as Burma. The United States has left the top 20 of least corrupt will, at 22nd place.