The changing face of corruption in the Asia Pacific : current perspectives and future challenges / edited by Marie De La Rama, Chris Rowley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De La Rama, Marie, editor.

Rowley, Chris, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, 2017.

Summary:

The Changing Face of Corruption in the Asia Pacific: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges is a contemporary analysis of corruption in the Asia-Pacific region. Bringing academicians and practitioners together, contributors to this book discuss the current perspectives of corruption's challenges in both theory and practice, and what the future challenges will be in addressing corruption's proliferation in the region.- Includes viewpoints from both practitioners and academic contributors on corruption in the Asia Pacific region- Offers a strong theoretical background together with the practical experience of contributors- Explores what the future challenges will be in addressing corruption's proliferation in the region- Aimed at both the academic and professional audience

Contents:

Front Cover

The Changing Face of Corruption in the Asia Pacific

Copyright Page

Contents

Contributors' Biographies

Foreword

1 The changing face of corruption in the Asia-Pacific Region: Its discontents, current perspectives, and future challenges

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Part 1: Theoretical discourse on corruption

1.3 Part 2: Country case studies-corruption around the region

1.4 Part 3: Future challenges

1.5 Conclusion

References

I. Theoretical Discourse

2 Political finance and corruption in Southeast Asia: causes and challenges

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The costs of competition

2.3 Corruption as a result

2.4 Factors for rising costs and corruption

2.5 Initiatives for reform

3 The effect of corruption on foreign direct investment inflows: evidence from a panel of Asia-Pacific countries

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Corruption and FDI: a brief literature review

3.3 Corruption and FDI trends in Asia and the Pacific

3.4 Data, methodology, and estimation strategy

3.4.1 The econometric equation

3.4.2 Data and data source

3.4.3 Estimation strategy

3.5 Results and discussions

3.6 Conclusion

4 The role of multinationals in corruption in the Asia-Pacific region

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Supply-side and demand-side of corruption markets

4.3 Patterns of country corruption in the Asia-Pacific region

4.4 Recent instances of MNE misconduct in Asia-Pacific countries

4.5 Conclusion

5 Private and public corruption: facilitating payments

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Facilitating payments

5.3 Why is there petty corruption?

5.4 The ethical dimension of facilitating payments

5.5 The fight against petty corruption

5.5.1 The global strategy against corruption

5.5.2 Facilitating payments in the anticorruption strategy.

5.5.3 The role of companies

5.6 Conclusions

6 It Takes Two People to Tango (or more!): the corrupt and debased culture of neoliberalism

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Corruption as a moral deflection device?

6.3 Neoliberal orthodoxy

6.4 Conclusion

7 Corruption, corporate governance, and building institutions in the Asia-Pacific

7.1 Corruption

7.2 Unpredictable corruption

7.3 Low-level opportunistic payoffs or petty corruption

7.4 Grand or systemic corruption

7.5 Corruption and poverty

7.6 Corporate governance

7.7 Building corporate governance institutions

7.8 Institutions and economic development

7.9 Politicized institutions

7.10 Corporate governance and corruption

7.11 Conclusion

II. Country Case Studies

8 27 Years of fraud control in the New South Wales public sector: 1989-2016

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Public management 101

8.3 Establishing a policy on fraud prevention - first origins

8.4 First attempts at implementation

8.4.1 A model emerges

8.4.2 A community of practice emerges

8.4.3 Monitoring progress over the long term

8.5 Embedding a testing methodology

8.6 Light on the hill

8.7 Ethical framework

8.8 Future directions and expectations

8.9 Responsibility structures

8.10 Conclusion

Further reading

9 Money laundering activities in Australia-an examination of the push and pull factors driving money flows

9.1 Introduction

9.2 A typology of money laundering

9.2.1 Stages of money laundering

9.2.2 Typologies

9.3 Calibrating the effects of the push and pull factors on money laundering activities

9.4 Methodology

9.4.1 Dependent variables

9.4.2 Dependent Variable Construction

9.4.3 Ordered logit model estimation

9.5 Results

9.5.1 When push factors dominate.

9.5.2 When pull factors dominate

9.6 Conclusion

Appendix A - 144 countries

10 Corruption in New Zealand: a case of reputational erosion?

10.1 Introduction

10.2 New Zealand, the Corruption Perceptions Index, and changing national perceptions

10.3 A challenge to complacency? policing, transparency, and international trusts

10.4 Ratifying the UNCAC: why so long?

10.5 How does change for the worse occur?

10.6 Conclusion: a need for more scrutiny and less complacency

Endnotes

11 The limits of anticorruption in China

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Institutional and legal frameworks

11.2.1 The legal framework

11.2.1.1 Indictments regarding officials

11.2.1.2 Indictments regarding the briber

11.2.1.2.1 Giving a bribe to an official

11.2.1.2.2 Giving a bribe to induce a sale

11.2.1.2.3 Preventing corruption in the party-state

11.2.2 The anticorruption state institutions

11.2.3 The party discipline organs

11.3 Selective anticorruption

11.3.1 Corruption and popular pressure

11.3.2 Xi's anticorruption campaign

11.3.3 Morality in the political discourse

11.4 Conclusion

12 Governance gridlocks and ubiquitous corruption: charting causes, costs, and consequences of corruption in India

12.1 Low governance and high corruption - inextricably interlinked

12.2 State capture

12.3 Culture

12.4 Unbridled corruption in India

12.5 Diagnostic study of corruption in India

12.6 Bureaucratic corruption

12.7 Political corruption

12.8 Appraising the impact of corruption on Indian economy

12.9 Measures against corruption

13 Competing for public acquaintances: the case of the Reliance group in India

13.1 Introduction

13.2 The rise of a conglomerate in a changing environment.

13.2.1 1966-91: The birth and growth of Reliance

13.2.2 1991 Onward: the shock of economic reforms and the expansion of Reliance

13.2.3 2002 Onward: the death of the founder and the legacy struggle

13.3 The levers of Reliance expansion

13.3.1 Making friends with pivotal people

13.3.2 An ordinary Indian business house?

13.3.3 Professionalizing the management?

13.4 Conclusion

14 Corruption in Vietnam: the current situation and proposed solutions

14.1 Definitions

14.2 The characteristics of corruption

14.2.1 The subject of corruption is the person who holds the position and power

14.2.2 The subject of corruption abuses their positions and powers assigned

14.2.3 The purpose of corrupt act is a private gain

14.3 The acts of corruption under the provisions of the current law

14.4 Current situations of corruption in Vietnam

14.5 Solutions to prevent corruption

14.6 Conclusion

15 Corruption in Myanmar: insights from business and education

15.1 Antecedents: culture, development, and rule

15.2 Organizational manifestations

15.2.1 Recruitment

15.2.2 Management, treatment, and appraisal

15.2.3 Business bids, government tenders

15.2.4 Setting up: connections, ethics, and partnerships

15.2.5 Customers/students and customs officials

15.3 Looking forward

16 From credible threats to credible commitments? the changing face of South Korean corruption

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Why no credible commitment?

16.3 Understanding postmiracle corruptions

16.4 How to dismantle credible threats: suggestions

16.5 Conclusion

17 Indonesia's anticorruption campaign: civil society versus the political cartel

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Anticorruption reform

17.3 Political cartel

17.4 Resistance against KPK.

17.5 Enabling factors of civil society success

17.6 Conclusion

18 The road to nowhere: the rise of a neo-patrimonialist state in East Timor

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Background

18.3 Political transformation

18.4 The emergence of a clientelist state

18.5 The centralization of power

18.6 Rational-legal institutions

18.7 The road to nowhere

18.8 Made in Jakarta?

18.9 Conclusion

19 The politics of Australian anticorruption policy to Papua New Guinea

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Promises, promises: Australia's new aid/anticorruption paradigm

19.3 The politics of corruption and anticorruption in PNG

19.4 Australia's response

19.5 International and local responses

19.6 Conclusions

III. Future Challenges

20 Business feeling the strain: the changing world of anticorruption and beyond

20.1 Introduction

20.2 Background-where it all began

20.3 Next step-exporting the foreign bribery prohibition

20.4 What does this mean for business?

20.4.1 Compliance requirements

20.4.2 Due diligence and third parties

20.4.3 Due diligence and acquisitions

20.5 But wait, there's more

20.6 Conclusion

21 Is it as simple as ABC? a practitioner's perspective on anti-bribery compliance

21.1 Introduction

21.2 The heterogeneous private sector

21.3 International guidances

21.4 Organizational leadership and culture

21.5 The importance of governance arrangements to compliance

21.6 Corruption risk assessments

21.7 Dealing with gifts and entertainment

21.8 Third parties

21.9 Facilitation payments

21.10 Clear communication and training strategies

21.11 An ethical organization

21.12 Organizational response to bribery allegations

21.13 Conclusion

References.

22 Petty corruption in developing countries: here for the long term.

Notes:

Includes index.

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