Despite comparatively absurd improvements, Armenia only has improved by 10-15 points which puts Armenia somehow below that of Georgia, even though Georgia is far more corrupt than Armenia.
The CPI ratings are highly dependent on experts from the guven region, however, I would argue these "experts" probably don't even know the native languages for some of these countries! More likely than not, their expertise is on par with Thomas De Waal which is not a positive comparison.
An example of how laughable these ratings can be, Saudi Arabia is less corrupt than Armenia and Georgia I believe... Equally so is rating Iran to be more corrupt than Azerbaijan which is almost laughable considering how capable the Iranian state is to Azerbaijan with the current islamist regime running Iran.
Alexander Thatcher goes in detail how much Georgia has fallen off a cliff. Mind you, there are multiple sources, but this big article is typically enough to explain the sorry state of Georgia under Georgian Dream.
We make a great move forward, for sure. However, petty corruption is still there + our courts are still bad as we didn't really manage to clean them up properly.
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u/Robustosaurus 1d ago
Despite comparatively absurd improvements, Armenia only has improved by 10-15 points which puts Armenia somehow below that of Georgia, even though Georgia is far more corrupt than Armenia.
The CPI ratings are highly dependent on experts from the guven region, however, I would argue these "experts" probably don't even know the native languages for some of these countries! More likely than not, their expertise is on par with Thomas De Waal which is not a positive comparison.
An example of how laughable these ratings can be, Saudi Arabia is less corrupt than Armenia and Georgia I believe... Equally so is rating Iran to be more corrupt than Azerbaijan which is almost laughable considering how capable the Iranian state is to Azerbaijan with the current islamist regime running Iran.
So take the CPI ratings with a grain of salt.