Unheard Voices

Tue 18 Oct 2005

One Response to “TI and Bangladesh”

1. Hasan Faruq Says:
   October 21st, 2005 at 7:01 pm

   I noticed that the other countries near the bottom of the list are mostly civil war torn highly dysfunctional states in Africa or elsewhere. Considering that Bangladesh is probably the only country in the bottom part of the list which has a democratic institution, it is really surprising that we topped the ranking for the fifth year in a row. It is conceivable that corruption is widespread in the country, but it is not so clear why we’re topping the list every time.
   Either there is a bias involved in the way this index is calculated (for example: surveying a group of Bangladeshi professionals who for various reasons, may like to trash talk about their country) or our underlying democratic institutions are failing us and we’re gradually heading towards a state of dysfunction ourselves. If they haven’t done so already, perhaps Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) can explain how this index is determined in a press conference.

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