Vietnam: resignations over corruption or similar issues

From: Adam @ UoM <fforde@unimelb.edu.au>

Date: Feb 9, 2006 11:40 AM

Subject: [Vsg] Vietnam: resignations over corruption or similar issues

I have been thinking about the issues relating to corruption and similar

problems in Vietnam (as elsewhere) and trying to recall individuals who

to my knowledge are known / thought to have resigned on principle in

modern times. The only case I can think of at the moment is a German who

quit a UN agency in the early 1990s over alleged falsification of

immunisation results.

I am sure most of us are aware of both the Confucian tradition of

'returning to the garden', and the general advocacy of transparency,

accountability and so on by donors. Not to mention the estimate by some

economists that the average loss to corruption from most projects (both

aid and GoV financed) is of the order of 20-40%.

Anybody? Foreign or Vietnamese. Bearing in mind the possibility of law

suits etc. Writing letters does not count.

Adam