Thailand slides in graft index

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Published: 6 Dec 2012 at 18.04
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Thailand has slid to 88th place out of 176 in the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index compiled by Berlin-based Transparency International.

The global anti-corruption organisation has changed its methodology for ranking the 176 countries this year, from previously scoring them on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (highly clean).

Thailand scored 37 out of 100, sharing the same score and ranking with Malawi, Morocco, Suriname, Swaziland and Zambia.

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dickemery
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Discussion 15 : 07 Dec 2012 at 08.2015
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with the corruption now wide spread in all corners aleast this regime will have somee acheivement to promote their propaganda machine,the nation is falling backwards and has become a place not to be trusted in foreign investment,but is there the willingness to change things around ?
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Discussion 14 : 07 Dec 2012 at 06.5814
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88th of 156. What does it matter the methodology?

"Thailand scored 37 out of 100, sharing the same score and ranking with Malawi, Morocco, Suriname, Swaziland and Zambia. "

Those others are truly, truly third world countries for the most part. What a shame and embarrassment. Both that the current government ran on a platform of ridding the country of corruption, but also that the Thai people accept this since it is the ordinary Thai that pays for it.
The disconnect here is that it is the poor and ordinary Thais that vote for PTP.But, maybe not, they get paid for it.
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Discussion 13 : 07 Dec 2012 at 05.0113
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D11 : I read it before I wrote the comment,thank you very much. Look at the numbers. They speak for themselves. 80th of 183 to 88th of 176. Which is the better position? I'll give you a hint...it's not the latter.
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Discussion 12 : 07 Dec 2012 at 04.2012
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Khun Ricefield #11, if you know there is always corruption in Govt, is it logical to keep the Govt small, doing only the things that no private sector can do as I mentioned? With that, taxation will be less, and so, will be the tax revenue to be subjected to corruption. Do you know why there is little or no corruption in private sector?
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Discussion 11 : 07 Dec 2012 at 03.1911
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Disc 9 - Nice spin yourself. Go to Transparency International's website and read it there. It's not the lack of information that's troubling here it's the lack of belief that the methodology has changed without even checking.

So look here at item #7 or read the whole site.

http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/in_detail
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Discussion 10 : 07 Dec 2012 at 02.5510
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Well, this is not that disappointing. I thought we were further down the list than that. I always thought we invented corruption, but obviously, we did not, as other still beat us at our own game!
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Discussion 9 : 07 Dec 2012 at 02.519
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Wavettore #7, you are absolutely correct, that corruption is inherent in any Govt systems, however capitalistic system has a much smaller Govt doing only a few essential things that its private sector can't do, like national defense, law enforcement, infrastructure, social safety net and protecting the environment. Communist (extreme socialist) system has the biggest Govt of all doing virtually everything, and without a private sector, the whole system finally collaspsed under its own dead weight. Most countries fall in between those 2 extremes, and the ones closer to the socialistic side, like Greece, Spain, and the USA are now collapsing.
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Discussion 8 : 07 Dec 2012 at 01.448
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Changes to the methodology or not. From 80th of 183 to 88th of 176. Try to spin that into something positive. Ohh,3 die hard Thaksin fans already did!
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Discussion 7 : 07 Dec 2012 at 01.367
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Communism and Capitalism have both failed as systems of government because of the same illness: corruption.
In a new and long lasting form of government, Trust can no longer be one of its components. All efforts should be made to form a new type of government with new mechanisms that will not require the element of Trust or the promise of a politician to guarantee that the will of the majority will always be reflected in the laws of that government.
This will be a system that could improve in time the already existing possibility of such government today structured through the use of the Internet.
A new form of Democracy is Commutalism.
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Discussion 6 : 07 Dec 2012 at 01.176
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Tomorrow’s story will be picture of Chalerm with red-wine stemware toasting another obvious lie while the article will read "No Graft in Thailand". Facts? Proof? Evidence? Never given; just make any claim. No floods, no terrorism, no corruption and of course no truth or credibility.
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