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CEBU CITY -- Majority of business owners in the country believe there is a lot of corruption in government, but some 21 percent of them still give bribes to win government contracts.
The 2005 Social Weather Stations (SWS) Survey of Enterprises on Corruption said, "an outright majority of 54 percent say that most or almost all companies in their own line of business practice bribery to win public sector contracts."
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