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