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	India slides to 85th rank in Transparency International 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index “In the poorest countries, corruption levels can mean the difference between life and death, when money for hospitals or clean water is in play.” -- Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International. India, unfortunately, slides to 85th rank in Transparency International 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index, out of the 180 countries surveyed. This is in spite of the enforcement of the R.T.I. Act. India was ranked 72 in 2007. India`s CPI Score slightly declined to 3.4 from 3.5 in 2007. A country or territory`s CPI Score indicates the degree of public sector corruption as perceived by business people and country analysts, and ranges between 10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt). Least corrupt country gets first rank. Prof. Johann Graf Lambsdorff of the University of Passau, who carries out the Index for TI says, "Evidence suggests that an improvement in the CPI by one point [on a 10-point scale] increases capital inflows by 0.5 per cent of a country`s gross domestic product and average incomes by as much as 4 per cent." This time, Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand share the first rank. All these countries have strong Freedom of Information regimes. Sweden has a long tradition of openness, which enacted world`s first transparency law, way back in 1766; Denmark enacted its Freedom of Information law in 1970 and New Zealand in 1982. Back
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