TDRI: Thais more aware of corruption problem

 

BANGKOK, 27 April 2017 (NNT) – The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) has indicated higher awareness of corruption among Thai people while suggesting that the government revise related laws for more efficiency. 

Citing corruption statistics between 2010 and 2016, Mr Natchapol Praditpetchara, researcher at the TDRI, pointed out that the corruption problem in Thailand is perceived by the public as declining in severity. The people have also become more alert to and less tolerant of corruption. Nonetheless, they still do not entirely trust in the effectiveness of the country’s anti-corruption laws. 

According to the researcher, top causes of corruption include legal loopholes, lack of morality and ethics among state workers, lack of transparency and traceability of political activities and restrictions on freedom to probe the public sector. 

In this regard, he advised the government to make legal amendments to regulate state authorities’ use of power, set clear penalties for civil servants’ violations of moral and ethical codes of conduct, raise the efficiency of budget spending and ensure transparency in each unit.

 

-- nnt 2017-04-27

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand is perceived by the public as declining in severity

Really how nice of you to form a conclusion for others

7 hours ago, webfact said:

According to the researcher, top causes of corruption include legal loopholes, lack of morality and ethics among state workers, lack of transparency and traceability of political activities and restrictions on freedom to probe the public sector. 

Atta boy now your shining. 

The military government have done the country a massive service in highlighting how irredeemably corrupt, opaque and unaccountable people in power can be in Thailand.

 

Hats off to them.

"The Thailand Development Research Institute"  

 

Oxymoron  "a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction"   Lot of that going on here.