The Corruption Trade-off

Between 2004 and 2009, ifyou mentioned CPI, most people would have taken this to mean Communist Party of India. Since 2009, CPI is likely to be interpreted as Consumer Price Index or Corruption Perceptions Index. Inflation and corruption have moved to the top of the agenda. Specifically, Corruption Perceptions Index is produced by Transparency International and has been around since 1995. Based on surveys, it ranks countries on perceived levels of corruption. The last such CPI was for 2010 and ranked 178 countries. India was 87th.

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