Global Integrity Releases New National Anti-Corruption Assessments

Our friends at Global Integrity have published new national anti-corruption assessments for 35 countries covering 2009.

This year’s assessments have been receiving significant media coverage, including from the Wall Street Journal and The Hill. Among the report’s key findings:

Despite a change of administration in the United States in 2009, significant progress has not been achieved in curbing corruption at the national-level in the U.S.

China is dropped from Global Integrity’s Grand Corruption Watch List.

Vietnam has made virtually no progress in implementing effective anti-corruption reforms since Global Integrity last assessed the country in 2006.

Uganda and Bosnia and Herzegovina have the dubious distinction of boasting the biggest “implementation gaps” of all countries covered in this year’s Report – that is, the gap between their anti-corruption laws “on the books” and the actual enforcement of those same laws.

Although the February 2010 presidential run-off election in the Ukraine demonstrated that the country is able to hold relatively free and fair elections, it has suffered significant setbacks in the implementation of other key transparency and accountability safeguards since Global Integrity’s last assessment in 2007.

Access the full report as well as data and specific country assessments at http://report.globalintegrity.org.