2007 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.

Moldova has moderately strong legal framework for fighting corruption. Unfortunately, these laws are rarely enforced effectively. In a pattern seen in other former Soviet satellites, the gap between legal and practical realities is among the largest recorded in 2007, indicating serious problems with governance and anti-corruption. Executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch accountability and the civil service are all assessed as weak to very weak. Political financing is largely unregulated, creating "ambiguous impacts" on political competition. Moldova has a national ombudsman, but its effectiveness is undermined by its vulnerability to political influence.