In Guatemala economic operators do not have the necessary facilities for access to public information to be used as input for their business decisions.
With the aim of finding out about progress made in the implementation of the Law on Access to Information, Citizen Action, and Transparency International evaluated the performance of websites and the information units during 2013.
The corruption of government officials and its negative influence on the competitiveness of economies will not stop as long as there rulers who celebrate being "a bit corrupt."
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The 2013 Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International has reconfirmed that all of the Central American countries are seriously "sick with corruption."
Between May and June 2011, the country's electoral parties spent $14.3 billion in advertising for the elections.
Acción Ciudadana, the Guatemalan chapter of Transparency International, this week presented a report on advertising spending during the election campaign.
No Central American country comes to "green" in the Corruption Index 2010, representing serious problems for businesses.
Costa Rica is the best positioned country in the Central American Index 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, reports produced by Transparency International. With an index of 5.3, Costa Rica is ranked 41 in a list of 176 countries, led by Denmark and New Zealand as nations where there is less corruption in government, and Myanmar and Somalia at the end of the list as most corrupt.
Costa Rica shows an index of 5.3, followed by El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama with 3.4, Honduras y Nicaragua with 2.5.
The CPI measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in a given country and is a composite index, drawing on 13 different expert and business surveys. The 2009 edition scores 180 countries, the same number as the 2008 CPI.
Public procurements account for 17% of the GDP. In January 2009, there were $43 million in purchases made through Panacompras.
With the view that for the strengthening of public administration it is essential to ensure a public procurement system that is "effective, strategic and reliable," the government of Panama issued a strategic plan for a structural reform and modernization of that system.
Central America Ranking: Costa Rica 47, El Salvador 67, Panamá 85, Guatemala 96, Honduras 126, Nicaragua 134.
With countries such as Somalia and Iraq among those showing the highest levels of perceived corruption, Transparency International’s (TI) 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), launched today, highlights the fatal link between poverty, failed institutions and graft. But
Central AmericaRanking: Costa Rica 47, El Salvador 67, Panamá 85, Guatemala 96, Honduras 126, Nicaragua 134.
With countries such as Somalia and Iraq among those showing the highest levels of perceived corruption, Transparency International’s (TI) 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), launched today, highlights the fatal link between poverty, failed institutions and graft. But
El Salvador, for example, urgently needs to pass legislation that gives citizens the right of access to official information, Marroquín said. Countries also need to establish Web pages that reveal every stage of public tenders, he added.
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