Feb 10
20
Corruption, especially in the government, is a leading cause of the poverty in the Philippines. A recent study found that government corruption continues to be a serious problem.
Businesses think corruption remains prevalent in the country, with little progress in recent years, although certain transactions with various government agencies have shown improvement, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said.
“Managers consider public sector corruption to be high and stagnant. The farther from the local level, the more that corruption happens,” SWS President Mahar K. Mangahas told a briefing which presented the research institute’s Surveys of Enterprises on Corruption. Read the rest of the story.
