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5. Government efforts
to fight corruption
The Barometer indicates that government efforts to tackle
corruption are largely seen as ineffective by the general
public. While just under a third of respondents rated government
efforts as effective, more than half believed them
to be ineffective (Figure 13).
There is, however, much variation across countries. The
countries and territories with the highest proportion of people
(7 in 10 or higher) rating their government’s anti-corruption
efforts as effective were Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Nigeria and Singapore. Meanwhile, fewer than 1 in
10 respondents in Argentina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Lithuania and Ukraine considered government
anti-corruption efforts to be effective. (For detailed results by
country, see Table 4 in Appendix D.)
Figure 13 ASSESSMENT OF GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION,
OVERALL RESULTS
Effective
Neither
31% 56%
13%
Source: Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2009.
Percentages are weighted.
Ineffective
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