Anti-Corruption and Third Party Monitoring

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...

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Main Authors: Alejo, Albert, Lorenzo, Jess, Mendoza, Ronald U
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/179
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813236493_0025
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University
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Summary: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 Philippines as pervasive and abetted by corrupt individuals. Recent analysis by the Citizens’ Customs Action Network (CITIZCAN) finds that, historically, up to 40 centavos for every 1 peso of tax revenue is siphoned by corruption in the BOC…