Corruption [Archives:2006/973/Community]
Afrah Nasser
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What's corruption? Is it a moral deviance in the heads of government administration? Is it a waiver of a country's public properties for personal advantages? Simply, I think it's using public posts to fulfill special advantages or it's a jobbery in order to fulfill individual services .
Through this definition, all of the bad profiteering exercises in a governmental or a private post are included. Such as, commissions, bribes, tax evasions, contraband money, customs swindles, revelation of contracts and transaction secrets , and intercession and patronage in public posts.
Even though economic corruption is a phenomenon that is almost limited in imposing on government jobs, it can reach invisible distinct sections of society.
People who are in charge, who are involved in this phenomenon, excel in utilizing methods of corruption. Plus, corruption exercises cover for each other and mostly an involved person would disregard the “minor corruption” in a country where “major corruption” is really common, and the difference between this two types of corruption exists in it's environment, in it's value, in it's impact on the economic resources and the commune money.
I think the best understanding of this phenomenon is through its aspects, its indications and its revelations. All of us know that any county's resources are exposed to growth as they are exposed to depletion and waste, according to how they are run and how sufficient they are.
Yet, a rotten rule is a chief element of depleting a national wealth, starting with bribes purveyance, to money conversion, money transferring, bills forgery, customs transcendence and manipulating international aid.
Corruption has numerous occurrences; the most important ones are financial corruption and administrative corruption. Political corruption is considered as the most dangerous. The most important term of the financial corruption is bribery, that's because it really concerns administrative departments and all kinds of service departments.
Perhaps what's really a dangerous characteristic of bribery is that it almost has an official justification and even in our culture it has an acceptance that could be a feature native to the third world's features.
Squandering country's expenses comes from the behavior of some of the people who are in charge in the country and the army, through swelling general expenditure bills, for the sake of some specific individuals or some specific classes.
During the phases of economic reformation, all of the countries that had gone through a transmission phase took advantage of important international aids. Despite the finiteness of these aids' amounts comparing to the transmission's needs and the national economics rehabilitation, important amounts of international aid has disappeared or has been used inappropriately!
There are several operations to eliminate corruption:
-Encouraging freedom of media.
-Public participation in observing this phenomenon.
-Superintendence accounting.
-Reorganizing lawful systematization of commercial transactions.
-Upholding free and honest elections.
-Combating money contra-banding and white-collar crimes.
-Setting specific programs with an international assistance in combating all kinds of corruption.
Economic growth has always been an obsession for any country, because it forms a frontal port for development. As it's known, several field and standard studies have shown how growth rates get tremendously affected by corruption.
To sum up, corruption conception has a great relation to growth. It's necessary to realize the international initiative to block this phenomenon. It's imperative to motivate the non-government organizations to provoke this subject and tostart dealing with it.
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