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Report Assesses
Global Anti-Corruption Mechanism and Accountability
Global Integrity (GI), an international organisation that tracks global
governance and corruption trends has released a report that rates how
countries fare on issues of government accountability and preventing
corruption in the year 2007.
The "Global Integrity Report: 2007" covers 55 countries, ranging from
members of the G8 to dozens of the world's emerging markets and
developing nations, from Argentina to Zambia. GI used more than 300
indicators - including a whole section on media and access to
information to score each of the 55 countries scores.
The "Key Findings" in the report give the big picture such as how having
elections is no guarantee of a strong democratic society. "We now know
there is little linkage between elections and the much tougher reforms
that must be made, especially in countries at political crossroads such
as Pakistan, Ukraine, Georgia and Kenya,” the report found.
Surprisingly, wealthier countries suffer from many of the same
corruption challenges as developing countries, especially in election
and campaign financing, GI says.
And despite the common belief that changes in governance and
anti-corruption performance take many years to happen, several countries
bucked that trend, showing big improvements or backsliding from a year
ago.
The Global Integrity Report: 2007" is available and can be downloaded
from its site at:
http://report.globalintegrity.org
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