Anti-Corruption and Third Party Monitoring
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is the only Philippine government agency that the Social Weather Station (SWS) has continually ranked as either “very bad” or “execrable” (the bottom of the rankings) for the past decade. In fact, the Asian Development Bank (ADB, 2007) characterizes smuggling in the Philippines as pervasive and abetted by corrupt individuals. Recent analysis by the Citizens’ Customs Action Network (CITIZCAN) finds that, historically, up to 40 centavos for every 1 peso of tax revenue is siphoned by corruption in the BOC…
Recommended Citation
Alejo, A., Lorenzo, J., & Mendoza, R. U. (2018). Anti-Corruption and Third Party Monitoring. Building Inclusive Democracies In Asean, 417.
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