﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Jordan Watch: Corruption</title><link>http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/Corruption/</link><description>An update and analysis of media and socio-economic changes in Jordan from a social democratic perspective.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:19:29 GMT</pubDate><copyright>Copyright 2008 Batir Wardam</copyright><generator>jeeran RSSGenerator v1.0</generator><image><url>http://batir.jeeran.com/photos/profile_t.jpg</url><title>Jordan Watch: Corruption</title><link>http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/Corruption/</link></image><item><title>Foreign Policy: Jordan is NOT a failed state! </title><link>http://www.jordanwatch.net/archive/2007/7/258625.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">258625</guid><description> To the dismay of some readers of this blog Jordan is not a failed state. According to the Foreign Policy Index of failed States, published for the third year in the well respected American magazine "Foreign Policy" Jordan does not rank among the 60 failed states of the world which includes seven Arab countries, topped by Sudan. 
   
 The Index was developed by the Fund for Peace an independent research...&amp;nbsp;[&lt;a href="http://www.jordanwatch.net/archive/2007/7/258625.html"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;]</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.jordanwatch.net/archive/2007/7/258625.html#comments</comments><author>Batir Wardam&lt;batirw@yahoo.com&gt;</author><category domain="http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/Corruption/">Corruption</category><category domain="http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/Democracy_in_Jordan/">Democracy in Jordan</category><category domain="http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/Jordan_Economy/">Jordan Economy</category><category domain="http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/New_Middle_East/">New Middle East</category><category domain="http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/Political_Reform/">Political Reform</category></item><item><title>Jordan ranked 40th in Transparency International's Global Corruption Index </title><link>http://www.jordanwatch.net/archive/2006/11/114932.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">114932</guid><description>The world's mot prominent organization specialized in monitoring and evaluating states of corruption at the global level is Transparency International (TI) which has just released its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2006, where Jordan was ranked 40th in the world and described by the index categories as in "worsening state". 
 
The 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) points to a strong...&amp;nbsp;[&lt;a href="http://www.jordanwatch.net/archive/2006/11/114932.html"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;]</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.jordanwatch.net/archive/2006/11/114932.html#comments</comments><author>Batir Wardam&lt;batirw@yahoo.com&gt;</author><category domain="http://www.jordanwatch.net/categories/Corruption/">Corruption</category></item></channel></rss>