Vietnamese People Increasingly Indifferent to Corruption: UNDP

Corruption is systemic in Vietnam where communists have been ruling for decades

Corruption is systemic in Vietnam where communists have been ruling for decades

The corruption tolerance level among citizens tends to increase amid rampant and persistent frauds at the provincial level, according to UNDP’s specialist Do Thi Thanh Huyen.

by KTT, August 12, 2016

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has said that the rate of Vietnam’s people denouncing corruption fell more than five times to 2.3% in 2015 from 12.5% in 2011, state media reported, citing the agency’s latest report.

The corruption tolerance level among citizens tends to increase amid rampant and persistent frauds at the provincial level, according to UNDP’s specialist Do Thi Thanh Huyen.

The amount of money which people asked for bribery each time rocketed to average VND34.8 million ($1,560) in 2015 from VND5.8 million in 2011, according to the UNDP-supported Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI).

According to PAPI 2015, a policy monitoring tool that reflects citizen experiences with the performance of central to local governments in governance, public administration and public service delivery, corruption remained at an alarming bell in Vietnam and people in urban areas suffer more from corruption than those in rural regions.

The survey respondents said their biggest concerns in 2015 are focused on corruption (6.04%), followed by East Sea tension (5.08%), and economic growth (4.57%).

Regarding land appropriation, PAPI 2015 showed that up to 70% of people surveyed said they were dissatisfied with land seizure and compensation policies, noting that ethnic minorities received less recompense in land appropriation than Kinh group.