Georgia among world top 20 for government transparency, says Gov’t Administration Head
Georgia’s ranking in the European Research Centre for Anti Corruption and State-Building’s latest Transparency in the Time of War index has jumped from 54th to 17th. Photo: Salome Tsereteli/Agenda.ge
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Georgia’s ranking in the European Research Centre for Anti Corruption and State-Building’s latest Transparency in the Time of War index has jumped from 54th to 17th, Revaz Javelidze, the Head of the Government Administration, announced on Monday.
Javelidze said the country was “ahead of 15 EU member states and four G7 member states, along with such advanced countries as Finland, Sweden and Great Britain”.
The Index surveys the state of government transparency around the world by measuring 143 countries based on a survey of both “de facto” and “de jure” state of transparency in the states.
Screenshot from the report.
The former involves publications of information on the web, with the latter focusing on legal commitments.
In a separate Index of State Integrity by the Centre, the country maintained its ranking as 32nd with 6.72 points.
Javelidze said the position meant Georgia ranked “first in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region in terms of the integrity of the state sector”, and was only behind Estonia in the post-Soviet space.
The Georgian Parliament on Tuesday approved the transparency bill at the first hearing that involves registration of non-commercial legal entities and media outlets in the country as “agents of foreign influence” if they derive more than 20 percent of their income from abroad, local media said.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday cited the country’s ranking at the top in International Budget Partnership’s 2021 Open Budget Survey, in comments highlighting his Government’s “openness and transparent work”.
The Georgian Government is aiming to achieve the country being listed in the top five of all major global rankings in the coming years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told the Parliament on Wednesday.
Georgia is now the highest ranked country on budget transparency in Open Budget Survey 2021 published by the International Budget Partnership on Tuesday.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Tuesday said his country’s “impressive leap” from 54th to 17th in the latest Transparency in the Time of War Index was “another evidence” the European Union’s refusal to grant Tbilisi its membership candidate status last year had been “far from [being] a merit-based decision”.
Georgia’s ranking in the European Research Centre for Anti Corruption’s latest Government Transparency index has jumped from 54th to 17th, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told the Parliament on Friday.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Saturday said the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World 2023 report ranked Georgia 15th in Europe and 25th in the world, being ahead of 19 NATO members, 16 European Union member states and all EU candidate countries.
Georgia’s National Intellectual Property Centre on Wednesday said the country had advanced to the 65th place in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index and credited the “recent push in innovation-oriented policies” for the outcome.
Georgia’s National Intellectual Property Centre on Friday said the country had advanced to the 66th place in the Property Rights Alliance’s International Property Rights Index and gained “international recognition” on its improvement of intellectual property protection.
Georgian Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze on Thursday told the country’s Parliament claims by a part of the domestic opposition on his office being involved in corruption and embezzlement could not be proven by those making the allegations “because there is no such thing”.
Georgia's European integration path was discussed on Tuesday in a meeting between Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of the country’s Parliament, and special representatives of the European Union and member states for the Eastern Partnership programme.
Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili on Wednesday said the country was taking “advanced positions” in the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators measuring the quality of governance.