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Bureaucratic Corruption in the ASEAN Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Their Anti-Corruption Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Jon S. T. Quah
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Bureaucratic corruption is one of the most serious and embarrassing obstacles to national development in the developing countries, which include among others the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) viz., Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. According to an official of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific:

Donor countries and the United Nations bodies working in developing countries are well aware that one of the most serious problems hampering development is corruption; so are the recipient countries. But no one seems prepared to discuss it publicly.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 153 - 177
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1982

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