Anti-Corruption and Third Party Monitoring

• Main Authors: Alejo, Albert, Lorenzo, Jess, Mendoza, Ronald U
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Public Administration; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/179; https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813236493_0025
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is the only Philippine government agency that the Social Weather Station (SWS) has continually ranked as either “very bad” or “execrable” (the bottom of the rankings) for the past decade. In fact, the Asian Development Bank (ADB, 2007) characterizes smuggling in the Phili...