113TH INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE PARTICIPANTS’ PAPERS GRAFT AND CORRUPTION: THE PHILIPPINE EXPERIENCE Nelson Nogot Moratalla* I. INTRODUCTION This paper will present a condensed report on graft and corruption in the Philippines. Information was compiled by the author from documents, articles, newspaper clippings and other data gathered from the reports and journals of the Ombudsman and the Sandiganbayan, two of the constitutional bodies mandated by Philippine law to investigate and act on
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I. INTRODUCTION We often heard that graft and corruption was introduced to us by the Spaniards during the time of their colonization. In the History class, it was said that it is because of those governor generals that did nothing but to enrich their selves here in the Philippines. But if we just think out of the box, graft and corruption is not just something that we inherited before. We should not blame Spaniards because of it. Then, you may probably asked, who then should be blamed for it?
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CORRUPTION Political corruption remains a major problem in Italy, particularly in Southern Italy including Calabria, parts of Campania and Sicily where corruption perception is at a high level. Political parties are ranked as the most corrupt institution in Italy, closely followed by public officials and Parliament, according to Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2013. Regarding business and corruption, foreign investments and economic growth are hindered by organised crime
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affairs. One of these, which is inevitable is to suppress corruption that seems to worsen. (Olivares-Cunanan, 2013) Although there is no known document that will lead us to where corruption began and who started this practice, there are already existing documents that proposes how it started and the reason why this exists. Corruption began in the early period as far back as the old Egyptian kingdom. There is also a clear founding that corruption through its most common form existed in other civilizations
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Persepsyon ng kabataan ukol sa mga dahilan ng Graft and Corruption Pangalan: __________________________________ Edad: __________ Kasarian: _______ Katayuan sa buhay: Mayaman Katampatan Mahirap Relihiyon:___________ Kaugnayang Politikal: Meron Wala Kung Meron,sino ito at ano ang kaugnayan mo dito: Panagalan: ____________________ Posisyon: _____________________ Kaugnayan dito:
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Sunaz Human Behavior Instructor INTRODUCTION Corruption is a complex phenomenon. Its roots lie deep in bureaucratic and political institutions, and its effect on development varies with country conditions. But while costs may vary and systemic corruption may coexist with strong economic performance, experience suggests that corruption is one of the most severe impediments to development and growth in emerging and transition economies. Corruption is widespread in many developing and transition
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1. CLIMATE CHANGE The Philippines has been considered as a highly vulnerable to current (i.e. natural disasters), as well as future climate-related risks due to its geographical location and physical characteristics. It lies along the Western Pacific Basin (a generator of climatic conditions such as monsoons, thunderstorms, Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, typhoons, among others) making it a path of an average of 20 tropical cyclones annually, nine of which makes a landfall. According to Wikipedia
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1:30-3:00 Social Sin: Graft and corruption Brief History: Philippines suffers from widespread corruption which are manifested in many various forms including bribery, kickbacks, embezzlement, vote buying, cronyism, and nepotism. The Marcos regime, which has been described as a kleptocracy, literally “rule by thieves,” made the Guinness Book of World Records in the late 1980s as the most corrupt government of all time.. According to a World Bank study in 2008, corruption in the Philippines
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Philippine public fiscal administration has always been characterized by continuous, expanding, and increasing levels of debt and budget deficits. It has also been beset with problems of mismanagement, conflicting and wrong priorities, and even graft and corruption. Though it heavily relies on outside sources for its revenues, many times it had no protection from external and even from internal shocks including natural calamities and man-made disasters. With this backdrop, write an essay on why or how
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next leader of the Pearl of the Orient? Who is in your mind that deserves to have the highest position in our country and has the potential to bring our economy upwards? Who among the 2016 Presidential Candidates will end the widely spread graft and corruption in the Philippine Government? Who would go beyond the limits for the improvement of our countrymen? These are just some of the questions that each Filipino voter must reflect on before they have decided who they are going to vote for. The
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