Panama shows little progress in fight against corruption

Panama continues its slide down the corruption scale and now stands in the 101st position of 180 countries evaluated by Transparency International. (TI). It shares this position with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Peru and Thailand.

During a Thursday. January 23 presentation by the Foundation for the Development of Citizen Freedom, the, Panamanian Chapter of Transparency International 

The report shows that in 2019 Panama obtained a rating of 36 points (on a scale where 0 is higher perception and 100 lower  The country 6 points below the regional average of 43 Panama has gone down, as it is among the countries that have achieved little or no results in the fight against corruption said Olga de Obaldía, executive director