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OneWorld.net / News - Few See a Clean Escape from Corruption

Inter Press Service (IPS)
14 December 2004
Not many people around the world seem to believe that corruption can be contained let alone eradicated, experts said after a major international survey.

....?Citizens across the world appear to be pessimistic about the scope of corruption,? Robin Hodess, director of policy and research at the Berlin-based Transparency International told IPS in an interview in Paris. Speaking after the publication of the ?Global Corruption Barometer? by Transparency International (TI), Hodess said that most people think the fight against corruption that was stepped up since the late 1990s is having little effect.
The survey was conducted for TI by the opinion poll firm Gallup International as part of its ?Voice of the People Survey? carried out between June and September 2004.
?For instance, citizens in Peru have seen that the former president Alberto Fujimori, despite heavy charges of corruption, could find refuge in Japan, and escape prosecution,? Hodess said. ?Because of such cases, citizens do not see a positive impact of the fight against corruption, and their perception that something is wrong in politics and justice....
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