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ETHIOPIA receives an overall "Moderate" 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 first time I heard about corruption, I was an elementary school student. The news on the state media radio was too loud and persistent, and the dumbfounded reaction of those around me too strong to forget my first exposure to a phenomenon that has become a subject of international concern today.
It was June 1985: Tesfaye Tikue, head of finance at a state farm, was convicted of embezzling 80,018 Ethiopian Birr (US$40,000) over five years beginning in 1978.
The special tribunal established by the military government to try corruption cases decided that Tesfaye should not only pay back the money, plus a 3,000 birr (US$343) penalty, but serve 13 years imprisonment without parole.
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