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2009 Assessment

Macedonia (FYROM): 2009

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.

Macedonia continues to earn healthy ratings on several important dimensions of governance and anti-corruption. The country's overall regulatory and oversight framework is strong and robust, with the national ombudsman, internal audit agency, and taxes and customs agencies performing well. In addition, Macedonia enjoys a strong anti-corruption legal framework, election monitoring systems and executive accountability are robust, and civil society organizations are effective in playing a watchdog role on corruption issues. Nevertheless, the country faces ongoing problems with legislative accountability and civil service regulations, where weak conflicts of interest safeguards open the door to political influence and patronage within the civil service. The absence of whistle-blowing protections for civil servants and of a truly independent law enforcement agency remains concerning.

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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 Macedonia (FYROM)'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.