Chapter: Reducing Corruption: Transaction Governance Capacity

Quote:

Most developing countries do not fully recognize the real costs of corruption and its impact on private-sector development and poverty alleviation. The capacity to facilitate commercial transactions through a system of laws fairly enforced is critical to the development of the private sector. I call this a nation’s TGC as opposed to TGC within the ecosystem we considered in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we examine the need for and the process by which countries can develop their TGC.

What I expect to learn:

To know how to reduce corruption through enlarging on the topic of BOP

Review:                    

Now I know you’re wondering why corruption was suddenly brought up in the topic because I was too when I first read the title but there is a simple explanation to this and it is “the public.” I know we can’t really reduce reduction by focusing on serving the bottom of the pyramid but we can reduce corruption by enabling people to take notice of the bottom of the pyramid which is obviously the bigger part of a country. Let me just quote something I searched for here in google regarding reducing corruption in any country, “Make an anti-corruption exhibit for a public fair or market. A small information booth could offer landowners information on both good forestry and their legal rights. It could also offer the general public information to raise awareness of corrupt practices in the forest. A more sophisticated booth at a trade fair can promote business principles, integrity pacts, and other anti-corruption tools for the corporation.” See, you need to give notice to the public not just chosen people to be heard of and for them to be aware that there are actual ways to reduce corruption in our country. Also, one thing I learned in ITETHIC is having a sense of responsibility and becoming accountable not for yourself or your family alone, but for your nation as a country of free will. Philippines is a country with God as its center. We incorporate our laws, our morals, and our beliefs to how God was explained to us in the bible. Being accountable for our nation is not covering up for it but it is becoming responsible for whatever it has done.

What I learned:

·         Whether the poor are the poor

·         TGC

·         Building TGC

·         The Andhra Pradesh e-Governance Story

·         Intended transformation to citizen-centric governance

·         Corruption and e-governance

·         eSeva

·         centre for good governance

·         the good governance model

·         guiding principles of the CGG in Andhra Pradesh

Integrative Questions:                          

1.    State the impediments mentioned in this chapter.

2.    What are the lessons from the Andhra Pradesh experiment?

3.    What is TGC?

4.    Are the poor really poor?

5.    What is eSeva? Explain.