Mexico, Sierra Leone, Georgia, Algeria and Lebanon are the Countries that demonstrated a noticeable improvement in anti-corruption performance in 2009 according to the Global integrity Report.
The governments in those countries has undertaken new initiatives to increase its level of engagement with civil society organizations and promoted anti-corruption efforts enhancing integrity.
Despite a change of administration in the United States in 2009, significant progress has not been achieved in curbing corruption at the national level in the U.S report has said.
The overall score for the United States in 2009 — 85 — is virtually the same as when Global Integrity last assessed the United States in 2007. Despite the new White House’s rhetorical commitment to reform and laudable efforts to increase the transparency of government information, there is little evidence to suggest that concrete changes have taken root that will curb corruption at the national level in the years to come report further said.
Algeria, Jordan, Liberia, Mongolia, Ukraine, and Vietnam were the countries newly added to the Grand Corruption Watch List. Those countries join Angola, Belarus, Cambodia, Iraq, Montenegro, Morocco, Nicaragua, Somalia, the West Bank, and Yemen, all of which were added in 2008 when the Watch List was first launched.