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ZIMBABWE receives an overall "Weak" rating in the 2006 Global Integrity Index. The Index assesses national anti-corruption policies and practices in countries around the world. For a printer-friendly .PDF version of this report click here.
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for all 290 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.
Global Integrity country reports are generated by an in-country team comprising a lead journalist (who prepares the Reporter's Notebook), a lead researcher (who initially scores the Integrity Indicators), and three to five peer reviewers. Global Integrity staff in Washington coordinate the input from all team members and are responsible for final content. For a full description of our methodology and research process please click here.
Reporter's Notebook
The pay slip of a civil servant in Zimbabwe bears the following inscription: "Live within your means; shun corruption."
Here in Zimbabwe, corruption in both the public and private sectors is endemic. In fact, things are so bad here that in 2005 President Robert Mugabe established an entirely new ministry, the Ministry of Anti-Corruption, as well as an Anti-Corruption Commission chaired by a former comptroller and auditor general.
Nevertheless, for Zimbabweans, graft is a part of life and death alike. Zimbabweans of all classes – from the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) elite to the impoverished vast majority of the population - have no qualms whatsoever about bribing public servants to get documents such as birth certificates, national identity cards, passports — even death certificates.
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