Sep 21
It is fact, there is no country in the world that is immune from the corruption. Also, it is fact, some countries are corrupted than the others. According to Transparency International, 2007, Cambodia has Corruption Perception Index of 2.0, where 10 is the highly clean and 0 is highly corrupted.
Corruption is every where, even in the developed countries.
This statement is one of the argument supporting the government.
I hope to open a discussion about this statement. Please discuss and comment.
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Tags: accountability, Cambodia, Corruption, culture, international, Social & Culture, transparency
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Corruption is a curse, but then again, imagine the potential for improvement. My country has barely any corruption, but then again no room for improvement…
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:57 am
Corruption is everywhere. The US has it’s fair share of corruption. It’s sad, but it plays to the truth that human nature is prone to greed and power.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Well, in my opinion, corruptions comes in many forms. Obviously, take bribes and allowing individual advantage or preferences is a major corruption, but like Borin have said, corruption is everywhere including the most developed countries. Another form of less harmful corruption, would be for example, now lets just talk from a business stand point, and everyone can apply it to their own views politically. Here it goes, lets say I’m a construction manager, I put the bid out there for contractors to bid on to be hired for the project. One form of corruption that can occur here is, a contractor privately contact me, names his price, and offers to paint my house or remodel my house for free if I hire him for my construction project. Obviously, if I hire him for my personal benefit its corruption, BUT I stress that, it is much less harmful to anyone. This is just an example to show that there can always be corruption, but some less harmful than others. I hope this have given a small insight to slowly distinguish between the acceptable and unacceptable corruptions. Let the discussion begin.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Thanks for your comments. Now I see not everyone has the same idea about corruption as me. For me:
-Corruption is every where, but there are places that it is worse, and places that are better. So to say, a government is good enough because corruption is every where, is not acceptable. To say you’re good you must be ranked among the cleanest, not the dirtiest.
- To me there’s no acceptable corruption. The only problem is. Is it exposed so you know? is there any thing you can do about it? So there are: Unacceptable corruption, and untouchable corruption.
Finally, although you can’t wipe out corruption, at least you need to try to improve the ranks as above Cambodia score only 2 out of 10. at least we have a clear objective to move from 2 to 6 or 7.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Well, your point is taken. But LIke you also said, and I reinforced, corruptions are everywhere, meaning, we can’t completely wipe it out. We agree there. But what I still stress my point in that, some corruptions do not have the long term affect over any third parties. Again using my example, just accepting the free paint of my own house, doesn’t undermine the work done at my work or the quality of work for others concerned. Those type of corruptions are acceptable in my view, as it doesn’t affect other third parties directly.
BUT, I do agree that Cambodia, is truly corrupt. But if you analyze the situation, it is very hard to change, as there is no bases of change or in lack of a better description, the conditions is not ideal for change. Lets look at the minor corruptions, leave the high ranking officials out for now, the traffic police, they are corrupt, for sure. But why? They are forced to be corrupt right? Their salary is TOO low to support even the lowest way of life, therefore they turn to corruption. If we want to fix that, we should really start where? I really dono where to start, because we can’t make the traffic cops straight, because their salary is too low, we can’t make the salary higher, because the government complains about low budgets… So what should we do? Where do you propose we start?
September 25th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I do believed that corruption does exist in every corner of this planet. It’s a matter of level of corruption and how it is surfacing.
For instance, FBI is now probing how the 4 big financial institutes collapsed which sent shockwave around the world.
December 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
[...] Borin who originated from Sihanouk Ville opened a critical discussion on the government’s claim that “Corruption is every where, even in the developed countries.” He accepted that corruption exists everywhere and varies in degree. While his blog’s commentators offered that there is the situation that corruption can be either acceptable or unacceptable, Borin resisted the fallacy of justification of corruption. “Corruption is every where, but there are places that it is worse, and places that are better. So to say, a government is good enough because corruption is everywhere, is not acceptable. To say you’re good you must be ranked among the cleanest, not the dirtiest. To me there’s no acceptable corruption,” said Borin. [...]
December 9th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
[...] Borin who originated from Sihanouk Ville opened a critical discussion on the government’s claim that “Corruption is every where, even in the developed countries.” He accepted that corruption exists everywhere and varies in degree. While his blog’s commentators offered that there is the situation that corruption can be either acceptable or unacceptable, Borin resisted the fallacy of justification of corruption. “Corruption is every where, but there are places that it is worse, and places that are better. So to say, a government is good enough because corruption is everywhere, is not acceptable. To say you’re good you must be ranked among the cleanest, not the dirtiest. To me there’s no acceptable corruption,” said Borin. [...]