{"id":1323,"date":"2014-12-03T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T12:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T20:48:28","slug":"documenting-drug-addiction-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/documenting-drug-addiction-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo, Albania \u2018Most Corrupt Countries in Region\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-Corruption-Perceptions-Index-Results.png\" alt=\"2014 Corruption Perceptions Index    Results\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the 2014 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, Kosovo and Albania continue to be the most corrupt countries in South-East Europe.<br \/>\nAccording to the index published by the Berlin-based watchdog on Wednesday, Albania and Kosovo are ranked joint 110th out of 174 countries around the world that were assessed in the report.<br \/>\nSlovenia is the least corrupt country in the region, ranked 35th, followed by Croatia, which ranked 61st, Macedonia 64th, Bulgaria and Rumania 69th, Montenegro 76th , Serbia 78th Bosnia and Herzegovina 80th.<br \/>\n\u201cThe 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that economic growth is undermined and efforts to stop corruption fade when leaders and high-level officials abuse power to appropriate public funds for personal gain,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 Ugaz, the chair of Transparency International, in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cCorrupt officials smuggle ill-gotten assets into safe havens through offshore companies with absolute impunity,\u201d Ugaz continued.<br \/>\n\u201cCountries at the bottom need to adopt radical anti-corruption measures in favour of their people. Countries at the top of the index should make sure they don\u2019t export corrupt practices to underdeveloped countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"540\" width=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/media.transparency.org\/maps\/cpi2014-640.html\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 2014 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, Kosovo and Albania continue to be the most corrupt countries in South-East Europe. According to the index published by the Berlin-based watchdog on Wednesday, Albania and Kosovo are ranked joint 110th out of 174 countries around the world that were assessed in the report. Slovenia is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}