Around half of the Egyptian population resort to paying bribes to access the basic services they need, anti-corruption watchdog said in a report on Tuesday. The report by Transparency International is based on a survey on corruption in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2016. Egypt recorded the highest corruption level after Yemen, which pushed 77 per cent of its residents to pay bribes in exchange for basic services. Despite the high corruption level in Egypt, only 28 per cent of Egyptians believe that corruption is growing in their country while 61 per cent from the people in the MENA region see that it has increased in their countries. Transparency International spoke to more than 10,000 respondents in the region during the time period between September 2014 and November 2015. The corruption watchdog says that Egypt “performs very badly in the area of public sector bribery, showing one of the highest bribery rates for the region.” Based on the outcome of the survey, one quarter of the Egyptian population believe that either most or all of the public sector is corrupt. The highest corruption level is recorded in the courts sector. About…
