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Absence of Corruption In the Judiciary

This sub-sub-indicator assesses the extent to which government officials in the judicial branch do not use public office for private gain. This is based on the following criteria: the extent to which judges, magistrates, court personnel, commercial arbitrators or labour inspectors are likely to take bribes to perform their duties or expedite the process; poor people do not use courts to settle disputes due to corruption of judges and judicial officers; criminal organisations, private parties, or the government, exercise improper influence over members of the courts, trials and court cases; prosecutors receive bribes to investigate a crime, prosecute a criminal, drop or reduce charges, grant a bail, destroy or tamper with evidence or expedite a court case; judges decide cases according to what the law says.

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Top 10 countries

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('12-'21)

Bottom 10 countries

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('12-'21)

Most improved countries

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('12-'21)

Most deteriorated countries

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('12-'21)
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    • Public Perception of Overall Governance

    About Citizens’ Voices

    As citizens are the recipients of public leadership and governance, the assessment of governance performance of the IIAG is accompanied by the Citizens’ Voices dataset in an effort to contextualise the official and expert assessment data in the IIAG with the reality on the ground as perceived by citizens.

    MIF has been working with and supporting Afrobarometer, the leading pan-African research institution conducting public opinion surveys on the continent, and the 2022 IIAG framework gives these more prominence. Formerly scattered at various levels in the IIAG, citizens’ assessments of various governance components are now highlighted in a Citizens’ Voices section, providing a comprehensive 'reality check' to complement the IIAG results.

    This section mirrors the IIAG categories and provides public perception data on the closest proxies to the IIAG measures. However, whilst these measures are available to compare across the IIAG, it is important to note that their scores do not form part of the calculation for Overall Governance.

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