Philippines inches up to 52nd in public integrity index
The Philippines went up by a notch to 52nd out of 114 countries in the 2021 edition of the Index of Public Integrity (IPI) by the European Center for Anti-Corruption and State-Building. The report assessed a society’s capacity to control corruption and ensure that public resources were spent without corrupt practices using the index’s six components. The Philippines was the seventh highest in the region with an overall score of 6.52 (out of possible 10).
