State of corruption in Yemen

Widespread and growing corruption has a profoundly corrosive effect on governance

and thequality of life in Yemen. Corruption is ranked as a major problem by many
reports anddonors comments including EU, world banks and the Americans.Transparency
International ranks Yemen near the bottom of its corruption scale 2.4 in 2004and
2.7 in 2005. The World Bank recently declared that the government's
performanceindicators fell markedly and cut Yemen's funding support by 34 percent
due to corruption.As indicated by News Yemen web, this significant reduction
attributed to the failure of thegovernment to meet the minimum standards of
transparency, efficiency, and improvement of investment-related conditions, and its
deficiency in fighting corruption.The qualification assessment for the U.S. funded
Millennium Challenge Account determinedthat the Yemen has moved backwards from
previous assessments.