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GEORGIA 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

Though Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili counts controversial Turkish reformer Kemal Ataturk as a role model, his presidency more closely resembles that of a leader from Georgia's northern neighbor: Catherine the Great, the "enlightened despot" who famously shoved Russia into the 18th century with a combination of "legislomania" and liberal reforms borrowed from Europe.

Georgia too has become a case study for the impact of a strong leader on a weak state. Whether a dominant executive power is necessary to quickly reform a dying and corrupt government or presages authoritarianism is a topic frequently debated in Tbilisi.

Yet no one here doubts that Georgia is better off now than when Saakashvili took over in 2003. During that year's Rose Revolution, when Saakashvili replaced Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia was a failed state, ranking alongside Bangladesh and Nigeria as one of the most corrupt in the world. Its largest export was scrap metal.

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