Business of Govt: corruption, transparency and purgatory

Business of Govt: corruption, transparency and purgatory
Judith Collins, the public sector's new little ray of sunshine. (Image: Getty)
New Zealand’s monitoring of “politically exposed persons”’ leaves much to be desired and is one of the factors underpinning an apparently entrenched decade-long slide in the country’s corruption rating by the anti-corruption lobby group Transparency International. The country’s rating of 83 on a scale of 100 ranked NZ fourth least corrupt of the 180 countries where the 2024 annual global corruption survey was undertaken, with its previous third place taken by Singapore and Finland remaining in second spo...

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