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Bharti Airtel ranked fourth in Transparency International’s listing of top 100 emerging market MNCs

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunication services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has been ranked fourth in a listing of 100 emerging market multinational companies as part of a study on corporate transparency and reporting by Transparency International.

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The study Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing Emerging Market Multinationals assesses the corporate reporting practices of 100 large multinational companies from emerging markets. These rapidly expanding companies, identified as rising stars of the world economy, come from 16 different countries.

The companies were ranked on three parameters:

- Reporting on anti-corruption programmes: covering inter alia bribery, facilitation payments, whistleblower protection and political contributions.

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- Organisational transparency: including information about corporate holdings.

- Country-by-country reporting: including revenues, capital expenditure and tax payments.

Bharti Airtel scored 85 percent on Reporting on anti-corruption programmes against an average score of 46 percent. The score for Organisational Transparency was 75 percent vs the average score of 54 percent, and for Country-by-Country reporting it was 34 percent vs. the average of 9 percent.

The top 20 companies by ranking

Tata Communications

Tata Global Beverages

Tata Steel

Bharti Airtel

Petronas

United Co. Rusal

Tata Chemicals

Mahindra & Mahindra

Tata Motors

Tata Consultancy Services

Saudi Basic Industries

America Movil

Reliance Industries

Wipro

PTT

Tenaris

Falabella

Sasol

Lenovo Group

Bumi Resources

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