Spain, cathegorized in the report as one of the most important economies in the world, got 0 points in the general score, same punctuation as Tanzania, Brazil, Romania, or Greeze, among others. On the oposite side, first in the list was the UK with 70 points out of 100, followed by the Czech Republic with 50 points, and the Slovak Republic and Albania with 45 points each.
The 55 countries surveyed are all members of the Open Government Partnership, a new multilateral initiative to make governments better, and which aim is to secure concrete commitments from governments on topics of transparency, citizens empowerment, anitcorruption actions, and to encourage new technologies to strengthen governance.
According to the report private corporations around the world are benefitting from unjustified levels of secrecy around company registers which makes very difficult and hard to, for instance, how businesses are structured or who owns them. These practices are, according to Chris Taggart of London-based OpenCorporates, "likely to support unfair business practices and even corruption because there cannot be proper scrutiny from and accountability to shareholders or the general public.”
New Zealand is mentioned in the report because "all the information on the company register is open for everybody, without charge, without registration, and without significant restrictions. In addition, the entries on the register are much more detailed than on all the OGP countries we have examined, including directors, statutory filings and significant shareholders."
OpenCorporates’ report
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