Azerbaijan leaves behind many European and Asian countries in its corruption

July 1, 2011 - 19:59 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development issued a survey on Life in transition.

In the course of the research carried out by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in collaboration with the World Bank at the end of 2010, about 39000 households in 34 countries have been questioned. The polls have been conducted mainly in former communist countries of Western Europe and several CIS countries. Namely this region suffered most of all from crisis, according to the bank’s official web site.

This is the second survey of its kind (the first report was issued in 2006).

The research provides vivid evidence of how lives have been affected by the global economic crisis and its aftermath, all against the backdrop of the two decades of social, political and economic transition.

The corruption chapter of the survey concludes that, on the whole, people do not consider that corruption level decreased for the last 4 years. In fact, all respondents think the most corrupted areas are road police, medical organizations and civil courts. The survey shows that Azerbaijan is among top leaders in all spheres of corruption. On the average 65% respondents in Azerbaijan mention that unofficial payments are of frequent or permanent nature in those spheres.

As regards Armenia, this rate is ranging within 17%, on the average. The highest rate in Armenia is in health care sphere making 28%. Except for Azerbaijan, relatively high rate of corruption, according to respondents, is fixed in Kirgizia, Albania, Turkey, Moldova and Ukraine. In these countries the rates are dependent on the spheres.