Almotamar.net - A recent report by the World Bank (WB) on indicators of governance in 212 countries said Yemen is moving positively towards reforms related t wise governance and fighting corruption.

The WB report added on accumulated and individual indicators are in six aspects, namely, voice, accountability, political stability, absence of violence and terror, effectiveness of the government legislative quality, sovereignty of the law and control of corruption. Yemen has established the Supreme National Anti-Corruption authority, completed draft of the new financial law which focuses on decentralization in implementation of the budget, defined accountability for abuse of government property. Covering all employees of the state with fingerprint and photo to detect and remove cases of duality, assessment of financial accountability of public spending for the purpose of improving performance of financial administration.

The report issued by the WB's Institute on indicators of wise government for the year 2007, inaugurated on Wednesday at the General Centre for Sciences at Sana'a University and attended by a large number of Yemeni politicians, said Yemen achieved tangible progress in improving indicators of good governance.

The report affirmed that Yemen displayed new indicators to improvement of legislative quality in a stable form since 1998 as it scored a mark of 25 in this field. With regard to sovereignty of the law the report mentioned Yemen made almost double progress since 2002 and got q mark of 15 and also it achieved noticeable progress in voice and accountability. Regarding control of corruption Yemen scored the best mark in control and corruption and got 33 points.