The 2009 Global Corruption Barometer Survey says that 77 percent of Filipinos see government’s efforts to fight corruption as ineffective, the worst in Southeast Asia and the second most “ineffective” in Asia.
That’s a condemnation of this administration considering that it has had all of nearly one decade to wage an honest-to-goodness campaign against graft and corruption, bureaucratic red tape and government inefficiency in providing basic services.
I expect government apologists to also brush aside this report, in the same manner that they had disregarded local and international perception of government’s dismal track record in protecting human rights and in uplifting the lot of long-suffering Filipinos.
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