Philippines national budget / Improving India's CPI / Bangladesh corruption contents

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The anti-corruption challenge in the national budget (Opinion).  “As manifested by the PhilHealth scandal, combating corruption entails a multi-level and multi-sectoral synergy, where civil society, the private sector, government, and the academe act toward a unified goal. [An] action that can be taken…is tracking the national budget. While it may be a tool to advance national concerns and priorities, it could also be an instrument to fund partisan policies and projects.”

Victor Andres C. Manhit/Business World: https://www.bworldonline.com/the-anti-corruption-challenge-in-the-national-budget/

 

PIL in SC to help improve India's ranking on Corruption Perception Index.  “A [public interest litigation] has been filed in the Supreme Court [of India] seeking a direction to the Centre, states and union territories to set up expert committees to suggest steps for improving [the country’s] ranking on the global Corruption Perception Index.”

Business Standard: https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/pil-in-sc-to-help-improve-india-s-ranking-on-corruption-perception-index-120091300513_1.html  

 

Political contents of corruption and anti-corruption in Bangladesh (Opinion).  “…it will be naive to consider the health sector as the only villain. Put any other sector under similar stress as the health sector today and the scenario will be the same, if not worse…[Effective] delivery of anti-corruption demands a retransformation of values, norms and practices of political parties for public good and depoliticisation of the state institutions, without which there is no way corruption can be controlled.”

Iftekharuzzaman/The Daily Star: https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news/political-contents-corruption-and-anti-corruption-bangladesh-1960161   

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