Source: www.pbs.org - Tuesday, December 02, 2014
A sign in Zambia discourages corruption. A sign in Namibia discourages people from giving or taking bribes. Transparency International found that global corruption is virtually unchanged in 2014, but China, a nation that had made strides to hold government officials more accountable, slipped significantly toward greater corruption. Photo by Lars Plougmann/Flickr Creative Commons. Despite China’s public vows to prosecute bribery and shore up government accountability, the nation falls short in its efforts to fight institutionalized corruption, according to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index released today . For one thing, bribery in China is legal. By law, an individual can still pay a single bribe to a Chinese public official as long as it’s less than $7,000 USD. For corporations, it’s legal up to $30,000, said Rukshana Nanayakkara, who manages outreach in the Asia Pacific region for Transparency International. That, paired with media reports of public officials going on trial for taking bribes, prevents China from truly uprooting corruption. “If you want to fight corruption sustainably, you have to look at the systemic issues of why corruption prevails,” Nanayakkara said. China dropped four points on the index compared to last year, and it ranked 100 out of 175 countries and territories that Transparency International assessed in this year’s report. By comparison, the United States’ ranked 17 on the
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A sign in Zambia discourages corruption. A sign in Namibia discourages people from giving or taking bribes. Transparency International found that global corruption is virtually unchanged in 2014, but China, a nation that had made strides to hold government officials more accountable, slipped significantly toward greater corruption. Photo by Lars Plougmann/Flickr Creative Commons. Despite China’s public vows to prosecute bribery and shore up government accountability, the nation falls short in its efforts to fight institutionalized corruption, according to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index released today . For one thing, bribery in China is legal. By law, an individual can still pay a single bribe to a Chinese public official as long as it’s less than $7,000 USD. For corporations, it’s legal up to $30,000, said Rukshana Nanayakkara, who manages outreach in the Asia Pacific region for Transparency International. That, paired with media reports of public officials going on trial for taking bribes, prevents China from truly uprooting corruption. “If you want to fight corruption sustainably, you have to look at the systemic issues of why corruption prevails,” Nanayakkara said. China dropped four points on the index compared to last year, and it ranked 100 out of 175 countries and territories that Transparency International assessed in this year’s report. By comparison, the United States’ ranked 17 on thefrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1yixLhD
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