Welcome to me myself and Inc. According to news reports, many nations had one of their worst showing in an international index.
It serves as a barometer of public sector corruption worldwide, from leading powers such as the United States and France to authoritarian nations such as Russia and Venezuela.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corruption-worse-over-a-decade-many-nation…
Transparency International, which compiles the annual Corruption Perceptions Index, found that 47 countries out of the 180 it surveyed had their lowest score last year since it started using its current methodology for its global ranking in 2012. It said of its 2024 survey that "global corruption levels remain alarmingly high, with efforts to reduce them faltering."
The Vatican's charity is reportedly outraged at what it called “reckless” U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis’ point-man on development aid insisting that the Trump administration remember Christian principles about caring for others.
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