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EAP2, writing workshop


Fighting Corruption is a Global Concern

In David Zussman’s(2005) article entitled “Fighting Corruption is a Global Concern”, he points out that there was an anti-corruption conference in Beijing that helps Canadians fight corruption. He gives some examples of corruption in Canadians. After, he explains how Transparency International shows corruption around the world. Many countries and international organizations work together for getting rid of corruption. Also, he claims that many counties are preoccupied now with anti-corruption efforts. For example, corruption interferes with economic development, diminishes citizens’ quality of life by denying them access to services and undermines people’s trust in government. Finally, he suggests four elements to the successful performance of an anti-corruption strategy. For instance, there have to be acceptable laws in place, all-citizens must be aware of the rules, there must be offensive implementation of the policies with clear signal and there are placing the right people in leadership roles. End of this article describes that Canada continues to enhance on current laws and policies that are designed to anti-corruption, in and out of government, in spite of some current reminders.
It is quite obvious that corruption should be prevented for our better life. As previously the author mentioned, corruption makes a lot of social problems as well as decreasing development. Therefore, government and institutions strive hard to keep away from corruption in order to prevent social violence and crime, improve development and reduce our economic gap between poverty and wealth.
First of all, corruption makes a lot of social violence and crime because it has many black markets and bribery. For example, if we read newspaper, we can find lots of corruptions that occur violence. H’ company which is one of big companies in Korea owner committed suicide because he was threatened by government. The article showed some violence by bribery and black market. It obviously illustrated dangerous happening. That is why government and organizations endeavor to prevent corruption in order to keep our good circumstances.
In addition, corruption interferes with economic development because money that supports economic development cannot provide crucial industries properly. It is common that some companies give some bribery to someone illegally. Definitely, this situation is waste of money for our social development. Companies have to concentrate their own duty that companies have to make profits and provide social goods. Accordingly, government and institutions strive to protect corruption in order to increase our economic development.
Finally, corruption makes big economic gap between poor and rich because some people who have wealth do business with high status people improper ways. It must make bad situation that poor people cannot go up high position because they do not have enough money even cannot get by their basic life. Some people say “ Money earns more money”. Obviously, it is right but we have to have equal competition for poor people. Social system must be fair. Therefore, government and organizations make an effort to prevent corruption in order to reduce our economic gap between poverty and wealth.
In conclusion, corruption makes a lot of bad situations such as increasing crime and social violence, decreasing development and making a big economical gap. Some people do not want to change corrupt society because they want to keep their status and life. However, corruption must be prevented for better life by government and organizations.


References

Zussaman, D (2005). Fighting Corruption Is a Global Concern. From Ottawa Citizen.