• Business and corruption

Business and corruption

This booklet presents the findings of  surveys of enterprises on corruption in Phillipines. The surveys are a part of a project to promote transparency and accountability in government and to help build a counter-corruption culture. The booklet updates on the standard monitoring items since previous surveys with the new findings.

This business survey finds that:

• there has been no abatement in the public perception of corruption in the government
• incidents of bribery in typical government transactions hardly changed, and any decline in the past has not been sustained, except for some improvements recorded in the National Capital Region (NCR)
• while corruption in the private sector remains smaller compared to the public sector, it has not shown a sustained decline - there is a need to step up measures in the private sector to police its own ranks
• willingness of managers to fight corruption has not diminished, and enthusiasm is high for a proposed Transparency Information Bureau (TIB)
• managers’ opinions are now split on how entrenched and necessary corruption is in government affairs - 49% of the respondents optimistically assert that government can be run without corruption, and the 50% pessimistically claim that corruption is part of the way that government works – up by 7 points from 43% in 2006
• enterprise managers are more likely to attribute corruption to the public sector rather than to the private sector
• from 2005 to 2007, reported solicitation of bribes in relation to getting local government permits or licenses has not shown signs of sustained decline

The 2007 business survey concludes that the scale of corruption remains high. Nevertheless, half of managers are satisfied with the performance of the national government in promoting a good business climate, and two-thirds are satisfied with the local government in its promotion of a good business climate.

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