Weeding out corruption

By Golam Ashraf Baridhara, Dhaka
28 October 2004, 18:00 PM
We are all embarrassed as our country has been dubbed as the most corrupt nation in the world for the fourth time. Transparency International (TI) is a Berlin-based organisation having a local chapter engaged in observation, interviews, and data-surveys.

Japan is a homogenous society and so is Bangladesh! Climatically, Japan is frequently battered by the typhoons as Bangladesh undergoes cyclone and storms. Japan is the second largest economy in the world with a trillion dollar foreign currency reserve.

From 1991 to 2001 Japan underwent its longest period of recession and spent 500 billion dollars during the said decade to overcome the recession ­ the government and the opposition together worked hard and finally got rid of the recession from their economic cycle. We are also having a disorder cycle!

The Planning Commission, Pay Commission , Chamber of Commerce and Industry and trade and professional associations should work individually and collectively to remove the anomalies and discrepancies in different sectors. That is how they can combat corruption.