How did we create the Grand Corruption Watch List?
Using our data from the Global Integrity Report: 2008, we took note of nations where key financial safeguards surrounding government funds were missing or incomplete. [ see chart ] Focusing on data for Political Financing (money in), Government Accountability (monitoring of state actors) and State-Owned Enterprises (government funding outlets), our list includes: Angola, Belarus, Cambodia, China, Georgia, Iraq, Montenegro, Morocco, Nicaragua, Serbia, Somalia, the West Bank, and Yemen. (For details of the Global Integrity approach, see methodology , download XLS data or dig into the scorecards.) The Findings In each of the Watch List nations, the lack of government accountability frameworks is emphasized as a key challenge for fiscal transparency. Detailed scorecards from all 13 nations can be found in the Global Integrity Report, but here are a few examples of troubled systems: • In Angola, conflicts of interest and accountability regulations are completely absent from the executive, l
