Ethiopia Country Profile
Environment, Natural Resources and Extractive Industry
Business Corruption
Corruption is not uncommon within environmental and natural resource administration in Ethiopia. Accordingly, as reported by Global Integrity 2010, business inspections by government officials to ensure public environmental standards are generally carried out in an arbitrary and ad-hoc manner, and bribes are usually extracted from companies in return for favourable treatment or expedited processing.
Political Corruption
Conflicts in the region provide ample opportunities for corruption, especially through illicit access to natural resources. As a result, smuggling and black-market trading of minerals, especially gold, is pervasive as reported by Transparency International 2003.
