Combating Corruption and Managing Integrity in Malaysia: A Critical Overview of Recent Strategies and Initiatives

Siddiquee, Noore Alam

doi:10.1007/s11115-009-0102-y

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“…• In addition, the Malaysian government has continuously worked on anti-corruption efforts and initiatives beyond the scope of the commission, such as initiatives of clean, efficient, and trustworthy government, the introduction of e-government, the National Integrity Plan introduced in 2004, or the Government Transformation Program in 2009 which included features such as the introduction of the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010, Special Courts on Corruption, and the setup of the electronic "MyProcurement" portal (see Siddiquee, 2009or Hershman, 2016 for more examples).…”

Section: Traditional Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Measurement and Macro-Relevance of Corruption: A Big Data Approach

Hlatshwayo¹,

Oeking²,

Ghazanchyan³

et al. 2018

IMF Working Papers

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Corruption is macro-relevant for many countries, but is often hidden, making measurement of it-and its effects-inherently difficult. Existing indicators suffer from several weaknesses, including a lack of time variation due to the sticky nature of perception-based measures, reliance on a limited pool of experts, and an inability to distinguish between corruption and institutional capacity gaps. This paper attempts to address these limitations by leveraging news media coverage of corruption. We contribute to the literature by constructing the first big data, crosscountry news flow indices of corruption (NIC) and anti-corruption (anti-NIC) by running country-specific search algorithms over more than 665 million international news articles. These indices correlate well with existing measures of corruption but offer additional richness in their time-series variation. Drawing on theory from the corporate finance and behavioral economics literature, we also test to what extent news about corruption and anti-corruption efforts affects economic agents' assessments of corruption and, in turn, economic outcomes. We find that NIC shocks appear to negatively impact both financial (e.g., stock market returns and yield spreads) and real variables (e.g., growth), albeit with some country heterogeneity. On average, NIC shocks lower real per capita GDP growth by 3 percentage points over a two-year period, illustrating persistence in the effect of such shocks. Conversely, there is suggestive evidence that anti-NIC efforts appear to have a sustained positive macro impact only when paired with meaningful institutional strengthening, proxied by capacity development efforts.

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Section: Traditional Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Measurement and Macro-Relevance of Corruption: A Big Data Approach

Hlatshwayo¹,

Oeking²,

Ghazanchyan³

et al. 2018

IMF Working Papers

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“…Public information are always not available (Barraclough & Phua, 2007;Yaakob, Kadir & Jussof, 2009) and in many instances, are not reachable (Siddiquee, 2010). This makes it quite difficult for citizens to hold the government accountable for its management of the public's money.…”

Section: Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Determinants of Individual Taxpayers’ Tax Compliance Behaviour in Peninsular Malaysia

Kiow¹,

Salleh²,

Kassim³

2017

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___________________________________________________________________The findings from this review suggested that tax compliance behaviour of individual taxpayers is influenced by ethical perception of individual taxpayers and their ethical perception is affected by public governance and transparency in government operations. Ethical perception plays an important role for individual taxpayers to report their income correctly. Ethical perception varies from an individual to another, which influenced by changes in their surroundings and their experiences when interact with government. Perceptions of how taxpayers' money is being utilised, benefits they derived from government or others evade to pay tax are considered as possible factors influencing their compliance behaviour. Taxpayers will be more compliance if government use tax monies wisely or when taxpayers get benefits for the taxes paid in terms of public goods and social amenities that they prefer. Transparent surroundings will enhance taxpayers' confidence in public bodies. Taxpayers are concerned on transparency in public procurement as lack of transparency may cause corruption and reduces public sector efficiency. In contrast, scholars argued that greater degree of transparency could lead to less trust as it will be easier for taxpayers to audit government and they might blame government for small mistakes.

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“…Despite multiple government campaigns against it, corruption in Malaysia remains stubbornly entrenched (Siddiquee 2010). Although the government appointed the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), it has had relatively little effect.…”

Section: National Variations In Asian Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%