Singapore ranked third as least corrupt country in the world, top in Asia: Transparency International

[Place Of Space]

Corruption is cured when there is less income inequality. Except maybe in communist countries where despite being upper middle income, there is a high level of corruption in communist China. Wonder why is that?

When referring to corruption, Indian governors maybe do the worst in Asia.

 

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City country like Singapore may be able to do this, without enough fortune, highly educated population, wealth equality, as well as Chinese cultural legacy.
Other countries tried western system, they all failed.

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[ToddBing]

Never believe in those western-leaded ranks.

 

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[Mista]

highly educated population

Singapore is actually not very highly educated... yet. We're just a developed country not long ago and our mean years of schooling is still lower than many Western developed countries.

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Before our independence, a large part of our adult population are uneducated migrants from all over Asia. Highly educated individuals like LKY are a very rare breed. On the other hand HK was much educated back then due to the influx of educated migrants from China.

 

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Singapore is actually not very highly educated... yet. We're just a developed country not long ago and our mean years of schooling is still lower than many Western developed countries.

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Before our independence, a large part of our adult population are uneducated migrants from all over Asia. Highly educated individuals like LKY are a very rare breed. On the other hand HK was much educated back then due to the influx of educated migrants from China.

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The younger population of Singapore is highly educated. While in a lot developing countries, youngsters dropping out of school rate is very high, they start making living with only junior school/high school education, or even lower.

Besides that, it's the Chinese cultural pragmatism combined with LKY visions made Singapore society.

Singapore is a tiny society, and homogeneous compared with a lot of other countries. One great leader can rule and apply his policy throughout the city country. While a lot of other much bigger countries, with hundreds of millions of population, you need 1 hundred LKY, which is impossible.

In western style political system, the unprofessional politicians can run the campaign, fool the crowd, we have seen many across the world. That's why the whole western world declining.

 

[qwerrty]

everytime when i see those type of rankings made by experts

 

[Indos]

@Mista How about corruption by Singaporean private owned companies (procurement employee/businessmen) ? Do you think they are as clean as your government officials ? This corrupt ranking system is only focused on gov officials, not private sectors.

I am quite curious when the transaction happen between Business to Business or Business to Foreign businesses/government institution.

 

[Song Hong]

Singapore has a reputation for money laundering hub not without merit. The difference is Singapore is able to do it while her banks fulfill all international banking industries AML standards.

In Singapore if you want to buy favors, you think of other ways than paying red packet.

 

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Singapore has a reputation for money laundering hub not without merit. The difference is Singapore is able to do it while her banks fulfill all international banking industries AML standards.

In Singapore if you want to buy favors, you think of other ways than paying red packet.

All the financial hub is the same. Belgium, London, Swaziland, New York, Hong Kong, Panama, Bermuda.

Financial hub is the place for billionaires, tax avoidance, money laundering is their day to day business.

 

[Mista]

@Mista How about corruption by Singaporean private owned companies (procurement employee/businessmen) ? Do you think they are as clean as your government officials ? This corrupt ranking system is only focused on gov officials, not private sectors.

I am quite curious when the transaction happen between Business to Business or Business to Foreign businesses/government institution.

There are scandals from time to time (like the Keppel bribery scandal in Brazil), but the public perception for private owned companies is clean in general as well.

The public sector and private sector go hand in hand; it's impossible to have a 'clean' public sector and a 'corrupt' private sector. The government and public institutions set the tone for the rest of the society and there's the strong rule of law to ensure compliance in organizations and institutions.

However if you really want to compare, I would say that the public sector is 'cleaner'.

What are the recent trends in investigations and enforcement in your jurisdiction?
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Based on the CPIB’s statistics released in 2020, cases involving private sector individuals continued to form the majority, or 90%, of all the new cases registered for investigation by the CPIB in 2019. Of these, 10% involved public sector employees rejecting bribes offered by private sector individuals. The proportion of public sector cases remained low, accounting for 10% of all cases registered for investigation in 2019.

One of the fairly recent introductions in enforcement is the Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPA) regime introduced in 2018 through the Criminal Justice Reform Act (CJRA). A DPA is a voluntary alternative in which a prosecutor agrees to grant amnesty in exchange for a defendant agreeing to fulfil certain requirements and specific conditions, such as, for example, implementing compliance programmes, and/or co-operating in investigations into wrongdoing by individuals. For now, there are no publicly-available prosecution guidelines on when the AGC will enter into a DPA with a corporate entity.

The introduction of DPAs in Singapore may be an indication of an increased focus on corporate entities by the Singapore government. This is since the Singapore Ministry of Law stated that the DPAs serve two main purposes – to encourage corporate reform to prevent future offending, and facilitate investigations into wrongdoing both by the company and by individuals.

How much importance does your government place on tackling bribery and corruption? How do you think your jurisdiction’s approach to anti-bribery and corruption compares on an international scale?
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Singapore adopts a zero-tolerance approach to corruption.

Based on annual statistics for 2019 released by CPIB on 29 April 2020, the CPIB maintained a 99 per cent conviction rate and received a six-year low for corruption-related reports – receiving only 350 reports for 2019. A total of 147 people were prosecuted for offences investigated by the CPIB in 2019. The vast majority of corruption cases probed came from the private sector, with 107 registered in 2019.

Singapore was ranked fourth least corrupt country globally in Transparency International’s 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). In the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy’s 2019 Report on Corruption in Asia, Singapore was also ranked the least corrupt country in the region – a position Singapore has held since 1995. Further, Singapore ranked third for absence of corruption in the 2020 Rule of Law Index compiled by the World Justice Project, and is the top Asian nation out of 128 countries.

Singapore’s resolve and commitment to fight corruption continues to be deeply unwavering. Singapore’s anti-corruption approach stands shoulder to shoulder with the best international standards both locally and in terms of international co-operation with other anti-corruption agencies.

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[fallstuff]

Corruption or not has nothing to do with democracy.
You think one man one vote, multi-party can cure the disease of corruption? Naive.

India as a decayed/disorder society, has the election, but every single congress man should be behind the bar. Literally the criminals are running India.

You guys has election, but no accountability.

Pity your shallow understanding of politics.

There is no political party as corrupt as the CCP simply because just the way CCP operates. CCP inserts communist agent at National, Provincial, City, and village level administration. This has been extended to private companies also. This kind of power in the hands of CCP guarantees corruption. In reality there is no line where the Chinese Administration starts and CCP ends. CCP is the Government, it is the Military, and it is the Judiciary.

The single most threat to CCP's existence is corruption as stated by Comrade Xi Jinping.

Corruption remains biggest threat to Communist Party, Xi Jinping says

Strict governance must be maintained ‘to ensure the development goals and tasks of the 14th five-year plan are fulfilled’, he says at corruption watchdog’s annual conference.

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[aziqbal]

I have been to Singapore and I can tell you its a super country very high class

peopler also very disciplined

 

[vi-va]

There is no political party as corrupt as the CCP simply because just the way CCP operates. CCP inserts communist agent at National, Provincial, City, and village level administration. This has been extended to private companies also. This kind of power in the hands of CCP guarantees corruption. In reality there is no line where the Chinese Administration starts and CCP ends. CCP is the Government, it is the Military, and it is the Judiciary.

The single most threat to CCP's existence is corruption as stated by Comrade Xi Jinping.

Corruption remains biggest threat to Communist Party, Xi Jinping says

Strict governance must be maintained ‘to ensure the development goals and tasks of the 14th five-year plan are fulfilled’, he says at corruption watchdog’s annual conference.

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You better read something in depth instead of shallow pro west propaganda.

Please check the cost of building high speed rail way/km in China and the rest of the world, and cost of subway, cost of road, all those are China biggest government spending on infrastructure. And in every countries, officials will try everything they can to cut a piece of pie for their own good.

Your understanding of how CCP running is distorted, purely in western lens, far from facts.

 

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China executes the corrupt while India and Singapore who just hide them.