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Lim L & Stern A 2002. State power and private profit: the political economy of corruption in Southeast
Asia. Asian–Pacific economic literature 16(2): 18–52
This paper reviews the extensive political and economic literature since 1990 on corruption in Indonesia,
Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. After considering each country’s individual recent
history of corruption, the paper comparatively analyses the relationship of corruption in these countries
with, respectively, the roles of the state, the private sector and external actors, democratisation and
decentralisation, and the impact of corruption on economic growth and inequality. The paper concludes
that while economic liberalisation, democratisation and centralisation of state power influence the forms
of corruption and its impact on national economic performance, they are neither necessary nor sufficient
for its decline.
Lindsey T & Dick H 2002. Corruption in Asia: rethinking the governance paradigm. Sydney: Federation Press
This book argues that more might be achieved sooner by much better understanding of political, legal,
commercial and social dynamics in Indonesia and Vietnam, not as they are meant to be but as they are.
Multilateral agencies, donors, NGOs, business firms and scholars on the one hand; and local politicians,
bureaucrats, business people, lawyers, journalists, academics, and NGOs on the other hand have
much usefully to discuss. Only out of that dialogue, a dialogue between the world as it is and the world
of ideals, can steady progress be made. This book examines these problems initially in an abstract
theoretical sense before testing the frameworks thus established through a series of case studies of
Indonesia and Vietnam, two very different Asian states: one (Vietnam) still socialist but in difficult transition
from command economy to a limited market structure; the other (Indonesia) embracing a market
economy and an emerging democratic system; one with a Confucian legal and political tradition, the
other not; one with a socialist, the other a civil law, legal system.
Luo Y 2002. Corruption and organization in Asian management systems. Asia Pacific journal of
management 19(2–3): 405–422
This paper argues that corruption is an evolutionary hazard, a strategic impediment, a competitive
disadvantage, and an organisational deficiency. It explains why an organisational perspective of corruption
is an important research agenda in Asian management, outlines how corruption differs from interpersonal
business networking and illustrates why corruption impedes organisational development.
MacWilliam S 2002. Poverty, governance and corruption in Fiji. Pacific economic bulletin 17(1): 138–145.
http://peb.anu.edu.au/pdf/PEB17-1macwilliam.pdf
This paper suggests that understanding and describing poverty, as well as corruption and governance,
in Fiji should be extended and deepened. In particular, the paper argues that a possible area for further
research might be to examine the nature of the wealthy who have become so prominent over the past 20
years (circa. 1982–2002) and who dominate Fiji’s economy.
McFarlane J 2002. Corruption a threat to national stability. Platypus no.75 June: 26–28.
http://www.afp.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/3966/corruption.pdf
This paper covers an address delivered at the Strategic Update 2001 and claimed that over this decade
corruption contributed to the demise of governments or the ruling elite’s in countries such as Japan,
Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, The Philippines, Papua New Guinea and to the demise of the Yeltsin
era in post-Soviet Russia.
Nicholson P 2002. The Vietnamese courts and corruption, in Lindsey T & Dick H (eds), Corruption in Asia:
rethinking the governance paradigm. Sydney: Federation Press: 201–218
This chapter explores perceptions of courts and impropriety in contemporary Vietnam through analysis of
the role of the Supreme People’s Court, the corruption judgements and media commentary. It is structured
in three parts. In the first part, Vietnamese legal culture is examined, with a particular focus on the traditional
role of courts and dispute resolution in Vietnam. In the second part, the two cases are analysed and in the
final part the role of courts and their treatment of corrupt judges and judicial officers is explored.