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In turn, the government encouraged the idea that ordinary citizens had legal rights as a way to ensure social stability, check petty corruption, and channel social grievances through a party-controlled mechanism.
But the transfer of rights has often been ambiguous, and is all too frequently vulnerable to official corruption.
In Poland in 2005, the issue was mainly corruption.
The PiS jumped on the anticorruption bandwagon and strengthened its appeal by linking the fight against corruption to the vision of hidden forces supposedly perverting Polish society and democracy.
Therefore, let me first present my anticorruption credentials: as Deputy Prime Minister in 1999 I was the first Polish politician to ask the World Bank to prepare a report on corruption in Poland and ways to eradicate it.
In my public life, I emphasized eliminating discretionary regulations – the main source of both inefficiency and corruption.
The corruption tax (the percentage of sales paid in bribes) declined from 1.22% in 2002 to 0.7% in 2005.
Poland now has a huge gap between the levels of perceived and actual corruption.
On perception, it fares much worse than Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Greece, while it fares better – or at least not worse – on indicators of actual corruption.
The corruption tax in 2005 was 0.7% in Poland, 0.93% in Slovakia, and 0.63% in Hungary.
Of course, Poles should not settle for today’s levels of corruption.
Instead, the battle with corruption should aim at removing its root causes: the scope of the discretionary public sector and the suppression of market forces.
This is the only path that promises both less corruption and more economic growth.
Combating corruption through increased punitive action, while leaving intact a bloated and discretionary public sector, will only paralyze public officials, delay important decisions, and play into the hands of cynical demagogues and political fanatics.
Europe rose from the rubble of World War II because of the vision of statesmen; now it has been brought to the verge of collapse by the everyday vanities, corruption, and cynicism of bankers and politicians.
Ostensibly, the purpose of the Parliament’s censure motion was to sanction the Commission for what was alleged to be the maladministration of the European Union’s 1996 budget; and there were (and remain) accusations in the air of fraud and corruption.
Corruption remains.
Corruption was a crime that was punished.
Today, corruption is the norm, and show trials, though still occurring, do not happen on Stalin’s industrial scale.
Beyond that, more inclusive growth depends on the completion of the urbanization process that underpins the creation of a modern economy; addressing corruption and unequal access to market opportunities; and aggressively mitigating well-known and serious environmental problems.
When officials are accused or suspected of corruption, they do not quickly resign, as in Korea or Japan.
The many decisions required to ensure success must be gotten right not just once but repeatedly, though, without such transparency, the risks of corruption and misallocation obviously are much higher.
Latin America’s Corruption ChallengeCOPENHAGEN -- It is difficult to distinguish the consequences from the causes of the corruption that bedevils many Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Corruption limits growth, but low growth itself encourages corruption and makes it difficult to improve government effectiveness.
In any case, corruption alone is not the essential problem.
Surveys carried out in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Paraguay in the last decade have shown that people exposed to corruption have less confidence in the political system and lower trust in other citizens.
Those who agreed that corruption worked had less respect for the political system’s legitimacy.
Weaknesses in any or all of these areas create incentives for corruption, laziness, and incompetence.
Countries, with more independent and professional civil servants tend to have higher quality bureaucracies and less corruption.
Placing an emphasis on automated, computer-based systems for procurement and revenue collection will go a long way to limit corruption.
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