9-ADVOCACY AGAINST CORRUPTION Flashcards
_______ is the abuse of private and public office for personal gain. It includes acts of bribery, embezzlement, nepotism, kickbacks and state capture.
Corruption
This is often associated with and reinforced by other illegal practices such as ___, __ , or ___ ,__ .
- bid rigging
- fraud
- money laundering
- extortion
___ is receiving, asking for or giving any gratification to induce a person to do a favour for private gain.
corruption
T or F?
This act covers not only public corruption involving misuse of public posser by elected politician or appointed civil servant but also private corruption between individuals and businesses.
T
T or F?
Corruption is the misuse of entrusted power (by heritage, education, marriage, election, appointment) for private gain. It covers not only the politician and the public servant but also the CEO, CFO and but other employees of a company.”
It involves wrong doing on the part of an authority or powerful party through means that are illegitimate, immoral or incompatible with ethical standards.
T
T OR F?
Corruption often results from patronage and is associated with bribery.
T
Corruption is an _____ in the decision-making process in which a decision-maker consents to deviate or demands deviation from the criterion which should rule his or her decision-making, in exchange for a reward or for the promise or expectation of a reward, while these motives influencing his or her decision-making cannot be part of the justification of the decision.”
improbity of decay
corruption is a ___ or ____ undertaken by a person an organization entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire illicit benefit
form of dishonesty or criminal activity
Examples of Corruption
• A company paying a bribe to win the public contract to build the local highway, despite proposing a sub-standard offer.
• A politician redirecting investments to his hometown rather than to the
region most in need.
• Public official embezzling funds for school renovation to build his private villa.
• A private company manager recruiting an ill-suited friend for a high level position.
• Or. local officials demanding bribes from ordinary citizens to get access to a new water pipe.
• A salesman bribing the purchasing manager of a company to give preference to his products.
At the end of the day. those hurt most by corruption are the world’s weakest and most ____
most vulnerable
WHY AND HOW DOES A PERSON BECOME CORRUPT?
Corruptions spread when there are opportunities, when risk is ____ in comparison to benefits.
minimal
WHY AND HOW DOES A PERSON BECOME CORRUPT?
- Career advancement
- Earning of more income
- Financial problems caused by illness, loss of property,
ILL EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION
Economically.
• Corruptions add up to 10% of the total costs of doing business in any part of the world and up to 25% of the cost of procurement programs in developing countries.
• Corruption leads to waste or the inefficient use of public resources.
• In the Philippines. figures from 1960 to 2016 indicate that an average of PSSO billion is lost yearly to crime, corruption and tax evasion. This amount could clearly have been used more efficiently and effectively for poverty alleviation or education instead.
• Corruption corrodes public trust, undermines the rule of law, and ultimately delegitimizes the state.
Africa’s 700 million people under 30 are seeking opportunities with dignity and if mismatch between aspirations and fulfilment continues, this could lead to apathy, discontent and turn them to radical extremists and join terrorist groups.
Other significant and serious repercussions of corruption are:
If allowed to take root in society, it can lead to a breakdown in social order and lives are affected when ordinary people are prevented from receiving all the essential service that they are entitled to.
Corruption may have drastic impacts like most of the public funds are used on the leisure and lifestyle of influential people instead of allotting them on hospitals, schools and other basic needs of general public.
Other significant and serious repercussions of corruption are:
Corruption is cancer that spreads rapidly all over the body.
Corruption in Australia, Canada and few European countries has adoption of concrete measures.
Nevertheless, corruption in developing and underdeveloped countries (especially Afghanistan and Somalia) is still a critical problem.
Il creates unfair competition and increases thie cost of doing business. Every form of corruption is bad for economic growth and could result to tarnished reputation of an entire country.
Corruption causes businesses to fee from the country because businessmen find it a constant threat for their progress.
T or F? There is a growing worldwide concern over corruption at the present time. A consensus has now been reached that corruption is universal. It exists in all countries, both developed and developing, in the public and private sectors as well as is non-profit and charitable organizations.
T
____ and charge of ____ now play a more central role in politics that at any other time.
Allegations, corruption
T or F?
Major corruption arises whenever major events involving large sums of money, multiple parties or huge quantities of products are at stake.
T
Corruption also flourishes in situation involving high technology (e.g., purchase of a
technologically far-advanced aircraft) or in situations that are chaotic and a number of actions is very large such as natural disasters, civil war and betting in international sports tournaments.
Major corruption thrives on a broad base of _____________ or bribes.
small corruption payments
In the end, all corruption costs are absorbed by the consumers and the taxpayers.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CORRUPTION
a) Recipients and payers
Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power and elected authority for private profit
Recipients and payers
