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2007 Assessment

Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2007

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

Bosnia & Herzegovina has a reasonably good legal framework for fighting corruption (scoring near Japan and France in a purely legal analysis), but practical implementation of these laws is very limited. Government accountability is weak in the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Whistleblower protections are nearly non-existent, and the civil service has problems: civil servants who are convicted of corruption are not prohibited from future government employment; civil servants are not protected from political interference; civil servants are not appointed based on professional criteria, and civil service job descriptions are not clearly defined.

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The Global Integrity Index assigns ratings using more than 300 locally-researched and peer-reviewed Integrity Indicators as source data.

This chart shows Bosnia and Herzegovina's anti-corruption performance on an absolute scale of 0 to 100 in these categories. The colors correspond to these ratings: very strong (90+), strong (80+), moderate (70+), weak (60+), very weak (<60). For comparison to other countries, the distribution of all scores is reperesented by the darker gray background of each category.