we are quite corrupted atm, there is no deny about that```but not because of the reasons that those western 'experts' indicated, and far from it..
Media, open informer and public supervision are the main mechanisms the current government using for anti-corruption campaign, and there is strong sign of institutionalize those means in near future
as we succeeded in economy in past 3 decades, and I also believe we can succeed in this too
this report is wrong about India
India is more corrupted than this
and its true its fact
but i am surprised to see china is also having so much corruption problem
good work CCP
As key issue a lot of these indices constant avoids is just how effective are these supposed mechanisms are. Also, these ranks all tends to rank mechanism rather than effect.
At the end of the day, corruption is bad because it causes resources to be wasted. Without these resources, society cannot function well.
A question I like to ask is this:
if something is completely legal under that nation's law and culturally accepted, does that mean it is not corruption? In my opinion, the answer is no. Take the example I used in the previous post on corporation donating money to political party to far their interest. By US law, these donations are completely legal and can even be counted for tax deduction purposes. The US culture also accept the fact that political parties will take large amount of money from corporation and the political parties will in turn represent the corporation's interest and these transparency and corruption indices will readily accept them as normal activities. So for all the technicalities used in western society, these are not corruptions. In practice, however, conflicting agendas and politician putting their sponsor's interest above long term national interest is pretty much the root cause of most of US' current problems. From this perspective, it is really hard not to recognize these "legal" activities as corrupt.
Also, if you are legally wasting money and time. Does that count as corruption? For example, I live in Atlanta area. The Atlanta airport is one of the busiest in the world and handles way more traffic than its capacity would allow. Yet a concrete plan to build a new one to alleviate the issue has failed to material despite everyone recognize the issue. This is because none of the residents in the nearby area want an airport near their property. Everything about the situation is legal, yet at the same time, the sum result of all this is a problem will keep hanging there with no solution in sight. This is a major problem with a lot of countries today. By absolving everyone from the responsibility, you also absolve yourself from a solution and more importantly, wasting one of the precious resource for a country---time.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's not kid ourselves. History is not kind to any country that lags behind time. It is filled with once powerful nations and races that got swept into a dust pile because they become complacent and wasted precious time to advance into the next level of development.
A major problem for a lot of countries on this ranking list is that they found themselves supposedly low on corruption, yet couldn't get anything done and they are wondering why they are falling behind.
