Screen LibraryFighting corruption in Asia : causes, effects, and remedies /
Fundamental changes within economies are needed to create arm's-length relations between governments, corporations, and banks. We are taking risks when investing in the future, and risk-taking demands openness and truthfulness from the agents we employ. If investors and accountants can concur o...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5169#t=toc |
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Fundamental changes within economies are needed to create arm's-length relations between governments, corporations, and banks. We are taking risks when investing in the future, and risk-taking demands openness and truthfulness from the agents we employ. If investors and accountants can concur on the degree of disclosure that is morally right we may come to some global agreement on what constitutes corruption - but to do this we have to bring together those who advocate profit-making with those who see this as usury; and we have to care for the future in novel ways - unknown in the past - so as to allow firms to be locally inefficient (apparently) while preserving the environment. This book looks widely at the prevailing situation in Asia and considers how little some governments are doing to guide their institutions towards probity and transparency. While fundamental changes are needed around the globe, it is in the developing nations that there is scope for radical change in the near future, as their institutions are re-created to meet the modern world. Once developed and functioning their managers will have the opportunity to facilitate and re-direct the institutions in the developed world, which happen to be more conservative than their own. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xv,402pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789812795397 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | D917 |
| Contents: | ch. 1. Introduction: corruption and its measures / John B Kidd and Frank-Ju rgen Richter -- ch. 2. The OECD convention and Asia / Enery Quinones -- ch. 3. The Asian money laundering explosion / Peter Lilley -- ch. 4. Corruption in context / Leslie Palmier -- ch. 5. Is the 21st century 'The age of Asia-Pacific Region'? Hopes and expectations as viewed from East Russia / Anatoly Korchagin and Alex Ivanov -- ch. 6. Monopoly rights and wrongs: two forms of intellectual property rights violations in Asia / Hock-Beng Cheah -- ch. 7. Corruption in mainland China today: data and law in a dubious battle / Fran ois-Yves Damon -- ch. 8. Culture and level of industrialization as determinants of corruption in Asia / Domenic Sculli -- ch. 9. The economy of seepage and leakage in Asia: the most dangerous issue / Gilbert Etienne -- ch. 10. Combating corruption in Southeast Asia / Clay Wescott -- ch. 11. The institutional economics of legal institutions, guanxi, and corruption in the PR China / Matthias Schramm and Markus Taube -- ch. 12. The nature of corruption hidden culture: the case of Korea / Yong-Lin Moon and Gary N McLean -- ch. 13. Combating corruption in Thailand: a call to an end of the "white buffet" / Maneewan Chat-uthai and Gary N McLean -- ch. 14. Comparative study of anti-corruption systems, efforts and strategies in Asian countries: focusing on Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Korea / Taek Kim -- ch. 15. An exploration of the dynamics of the 'corrupter' and the 'corrupted': developing cutting edge practices to prevent seduction / Lionel Stapley. |