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.

Many essential corruption safeguards and accountability mechanisms are missing in Morocco's overall governance and anti-corruption framework. Executive accountability, for example, is extremely weak in a country where "the King is sacred […] and the Prime Minister is accountable only to the King or parliament." Other areas of weakness include the complete absence of whistle-blowing protections, limited citizen access to information, no election oversight, poor regulations governing the budgetary process, and ineffective rule of law.