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.

Serbia continues to suffer from a weak anti-corruption and governance framework. Most notably, it has deep problems with government accountability and in administration and civil service. Regulations governing conflicts of interest among members of the national legislature, as well as the national-level judiciary, are particularly weak. Furthermore, while the country has strong anti-corruption legal measures in place, its anti-corruption agency is seen as ineffective. According to our lead researcher, the agency "can only monitor the behavior of the politicians. The harshest penalty they can give is to publicly invite them to resign. However, that has never happened, partly because the agency does not have enough staff…"