| Ma. Lourdes Mangaoang (above) disagrees with the findings of the Social Weather Stations on corruption at the Bureau of Customs, saying she has introduced many reforms at the Cebu port. At the speakers’ table (from left) Antonio Pineda, Cebu Business Club (CBC) president; Linda Luz Guerrero, SWS project director; and Roger Lim, a director of CBC.(Sun.star photo/Alex Badayos) |
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The business sector in Metro Cebu is getting less involved in corrupt transactions with government agencies and adhering more to honest practices, according to the 2006 SWS Survey of Enterprises on Corruption.
The same results were reported in Metro Manila, Cavite-Laguna-Batangas (Calaba), Davao and Cagayan de Oro-Iligan.
However, in terms of giving more funds to fight corruption, Metro Cebu dropped to two percent from five percent in 2005. The rest of the areas surveyed showed more or less the same figures, when asked if they were willing to contribute to cut government corruption by half.
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