Sri Lanka fails to make progress on anti-corruption

<p>Sri Lanka has failed to make progress in tackling corruption, maintaining the same score on Transparency International’s 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) as the previous year.</p> <p>The global anti-corruption organisation’s index ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.</p> <p>Sri Lanka retained its score of 38 from 2017, falling most closely in the range of Transparency International's definition of a 'hybrid regime', showing&nbsp;'elements of autocratic tendencies'</p> <p>“The CPI performance of Sri Lanka underscores its stagnant anti-corruption environment, which has seen the country’s CPI score fluctuate between 36 and 38 since 2013, despite the anti-corruption mandate provided to the government,” <a href="http://www.tisrilanka.org/ti-index-2018-anti-corruption-stagnant-politi…"><u>Transparency International’s Sri Lanka chapter said.</u></a></p>