{"id":896,"date":"2007-12-08T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/08\/malaysias-performance-in-global-corruption-barometer-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T06:45:07","slug":"malaysias-performance-in-global-corruption-barometer-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/08\/malaysias-performance-in-global-corruption-barometer-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia’s performance in Global Corruption Barometer 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

NST reported<\/a> about the Transparency International's<\/a> Global Corruption Barometer 2007 (download PDF copy here<\/a>). Some of the highlights on Malaysia are listed below:<\/p>\n

1. 6-18% of respondents reporting they paid a bribe to obtain a service (Table 1)
2. Malaysia is among the countries who believe government efforts to fight corruption are most effective (Table 3).
3. Number of respondents is 1250.
4. 6% of respondents paid bribe to obtain a service. (Table 4.1 )
5. Police sector is perceived as most affected to corruption (3.7 out of 5), followed by political parties (3.6 out 5). Both are lower than the overall average of 3.6 and 4.0 respectively. Religious bodies are perceived as least affected at 1.9 out 5. (Table 4.2).
6. 63% says in next three years corruption will increase, 18% says decrease, while 19% says it will remain. (Table 4.3)
7. 53% says the government effort to fight corruption is effective, 10% say its neither effective nor ineffective, while 37% says its ineffective. (Table 4.4)<\/p>\n

Graft hits poor in Africa, Asia hardest<\/font><\/i><\/h5>\n

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BERLIN: Some of the world's poorest people in Africa and Asia are hardest hit by public corruption — forced to pay bribes for police protection, education and justice — according to a survey released on Thursday. <\/i><\/p>\n\n<\/table>\n

Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International's 2007 Global Corruption Barometer showed that as a region, Africa suffered the most public corruption. In the African countries surveyed, 42 per cent of people reported that they had been asked to pay a bribe to obtain a service during the past 12 months. The Asia-Pacific region was next with 22 per cent; the grouping of Russia, Moldova and Ukraine came in next with 21 per cent; Latin America with 13 per cent; southeastern Europe with 12 per cent; the European Union with five per cent; and North America with two per cent.<\/p>\n

"This year's Global Corruption Barometer has made it clear that too often, people must part with their hard-earned money to pay for services that should be free," said organisation chairman Huguette Labelle.<\/p>\n

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The survey of more than 63,199 people in 60 countries, compiled by polling agency Gallup, found that a majority believe corruption in general is on the rise, and they consider politics the most graft-ridden sector. Fifty-four per cent said they expected the level of corruption to increase in the next three years, 26 per cent said it would stay the same, while 20 per cent said it would decrease.<\/p>\n

Slightly less than 70 per cent said political parties were the most corrupt institutions, followed by about 55 per cent who said parliament or the country's legislature was the most corrupt, narrowly trailed by just over 50 per cent citing police departments. The figures total more than 100 per cent because people gave multiple answers about where they paid bribes.<\/p>\n

Of the countries and territories where interviews were carried out, Cameroon fared the worst, with 79 per cent of respondents saying they had paid a bribe to obtain services. They were followed by 72 per cent of Cambodians, 71 per cent of Albanians, 67 per cent from Kosovo; both Macedonia and Pakistan registered 44 per cent.<\/p>\n

Romania registered the highest levels of corruption inside the European Union, with one in three Romanians saying they paid bribes in 2007 — a higher rate than last year, before Romania joined the EU, when one in five said they paid bribes.Canada, Japan, South Korea, Austria, France, Iceland, Sweden and Switzerland fared the best overall, with only one per cent of respondents saying they had paid a bribe. The United States, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Britain did slightly worse with two per cent.<\/p>\n

The study found that police departments were the most corrupt, with one in four respondents around the world who had contact with police being asked to pay a bribe — and one in six ending up paying. Police departments were followed by the judiciary, permit and registration services, the education system and medical services.<\/p>\n

This year's survey was done between June and September. It has been carried out yearly since 2003.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NST reported about the Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer 2007 (download PDF copy here). Some of the highlights on Malaysia are listed below: 1. 6-18% of respondents reporting they paid a bribe to obtain a service (Table 1) 2. Malaysia is among the countries who believe government efforts to fight corruption are most effective (Table […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,133,111],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education","tag-isa","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}