On Dec 3, Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perception Index.
Previous Posts
Last year, I wrote two blog posts that specifically focused on the CPI score for Mongolia:
- https://blogs.ubc.ca/mongolia/2012/corruption-transparency-international/
- https://blogs.ubc.ca/mongolia/2012/more-on-corruption-in-mongolia-according-to-transparency-international-further-comparisons/
Last weekend, I wrote a post that looked ahead to the release of the 2013 CPI.
2013
In 2013, Mongolia’s score came in as 38. That puts Mongolia at 83rd least corrupt among the 177 countries that are included in the CPI.
Elements in the CPI
Some hours after the initial release of the CPI, TI also provided the complete data set of component scores on its website.
For the 2013 CPI, the following sources are listed as sources:
- Bertelsmann Foundation Transformation Index 2014
- Economist Intelligence Unit Country Risk Ratings (no date)
- Global Insight Country Risk Ratings (n.d.)
- Political Risk Services International Country Risk Guide (n.d.)
- World Bank – Country Policy and Institutional Assessment 2012
- World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey (EOS) 2013
- World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2013
Here is a summary of the CPI scoring for Mongolia:
| Rank | Score | Surveys Used | S.E. | Lower 90% CI | Upper 90% CI | Min Score | Max Score | |
| 2012 | 94 | 36 | 7 | 2.6 | 32 | 40 | 26 | 47 |
| 2013 | 83 | 38 | 7 | 2.2 | 34 | 42 | 31 | 47 |
Here are the individual component scores on a normalized scale out of 100 as calculated by TI:
| BTI | ICRG | WB | WEF | WJP | EIU | GI | |
| 2012 | 32 | 31 | 47 | 26 | 37 | 38 | 42 |
| 2013 | 40 | 31 | 47 | 32 | 33 | 38 | 42 |
The WEF’s Executive Opinion Survey contributed by far the lowest score to the overall CPI in 2012. This score has moved up significantly to 32 this year. Given that this score reflects an annual opinion survey, movement in the score seems plausible and may well reflect some of the perceptions of corruption that I discussed previously. Likewise the Bertelsmann Transformation Index has moved up significantly to 40. These two increases are somewhat balanced by the drop in the score from the World Justice Project. Though even if the WJP score had remained the same, the overall score would not have changed, so the 2-point increase for the score is driven by the rise in the BTI and WEF scores.
Countries with an Identical Score to Mongolia
Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Jamaica, Liberia, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia
Scores for Select Post-State Socialist Countries
Estonia (68), Poland (60), Armenia (36), Vietnam (31), Russia (28), Tajikistan (22), Uzbekistan (17)
Select Scores in Mongolia’s Neighbourhood
Singapore (86), Japan (74), Taiwan (61), S Korea (55), China (40), Indonesia (32), Kazakhstan (26), Kyrgyzstan (24), Myanmar (21)
The average score for the Asia Pacific region (TI includes Mongolia in this region, though I have simply picked countries in some geographic proximity to Mongolia for the listing above) is 43. While below the average, Mongolia comes in above the median score for the region (36).
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