2008 Assessment

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.

Fiji's anti-corruption challenges appear to be rooted in executive influence over other branches of government as well as over civil society. Under the current military government, online content is monitored and at times censored; meanwhile, self-censorship in the media is strong and stoked by ambiguous libel laws. The lack of a formal access to information regime; the absence of regulations governing political financing; and virtually no accountability safeguards across the executive, legislature, judiciary, or the civil service highlight the legal gaps in the country's anti-corruption architecture. Bright spots include a relatively effective Auditor General and judicial independence in corruption cases.