Summary Response

Jae Youn Jung(Tina)
EAP2 Writer’s Workshop
MS. Wright
Summary response
October 3, 2007

Corruption is an enemy.

In Beijing, there was a conference about anti-corruption. Many countries and international institutions have been working for years on eliminating corruption. The World Bank estimates that about one-third of all public investment is wasted due to bribery. Also, more than 30 percent of multinationals feel that corruption is a major or very severe concern to them in their investment decisions with countries around the world. Added to bribery is the cost of money laundering, estimated about $500billion U.S. per year. As a result, many countries are preoccupied now with anti-corruption efforts. There are four elements to the successful implementation of anti-corruption strategy. First, there have to be adequate laws. Second, all citizens must be aware of the rules. Third, there must be aggressive implementation of the policies. Last, place the right people in leadership roles.

Corruption is not a domestic problem anymore it is a global concern. Many politicians or chief executive officer in company are involved in corruption. Even though they know they are in wrong way. According to “Exporting Corruption; Privatization, Multinationals and Bribery” Susan, H.(2006, June) said “For multinationals, bribery enables companies to gain contracts or concessions which they would not otherwise have won, or to do so on more favorable terms. Every year, Western businesses pay huge amounts of money in bribes to win friends, influence and contracts. These bribes are conservatively estimated to run to US$80 billion a year—roughly the amount that the UN believes is needed to eradicate global poverty.” Nobody can believe that people spend 80 billion dollars paying for briberies every year. Thus, people should find solutions about corruption. Corruption must be a big problem for these reasons: it benefits the company not the country, creates gap between the rich and poor, makes people think money is everything.

First of all, corruption does not give profit to country but company. The reason why most companies practice corruption is to make a lot of money. The company, sometimes they are related to some politicians. For example, a company who wants to build plant in limited area will give some money to powerful politicians for building plants in limited area. Unfortunately, if the government let companies break laws, the crimes in society will be increased. Because eventually breaking laws again and again make company do not feel guilty. Therefore, as people think about development of country, they should not do corruption.

Second, corruption make gap between rich and poor people large. People who can do corruption are mostly rich because money makes corruption possible. For example, if a person who wants to get a goal, he or she would give briberies to someone. After achieving the goal some people will be richer. Thus, rich people are getting richer, poor people getting poorer. For example, if a rich person wanted his or her son to work for famous company and he or she got a job from the company by giving a bribe, a poor person has less opportunities to get a job. Hence, the gap between the rich and poor never should occur because of the corruption.

Last, corruption makes people think money means everything. Most of corruption is occurred by giving and taking money. For example, if person did corruption and he or she success, they would think that money solves everything. The thought that money is everything is very dangerous. Not all problem can not be solved by money. A person who is succeed because of corruption can not be permitted. Also, if people in the world think “money is everything” all societies would be corrupt making corruption a global issue.

In conclusion, although some people insist that there is no solution to corruption, this is just an excuse. People must do their best before complaining. There are enough reasons finding solution because corruption wastes a lot of money, the rich and poor are getting further, and corruption make people money is more important than humans. To find solutions people can found the organization about corruption if they need to. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a good example. Everyone in the world should recognize that corruption is the way of destroying the world.

References

Susan, H.(2006, June). Exporting Corruption; Privatization, Multinationals and Bribery. Retrieved
September 16, 2007, from
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/Corruption.asp