Experts say the causes of corruption are as follows:
1.Singh (1974) research found that the causes of corruption in India is the moral weakness (41.3%), economic pressure (23.8%), administrative structure barriers (17.2%), social structural barriers (7, 08%).
2. Merican (1971) states the causes of corruption are as follows:
a. Relics of the Dutch Colonial Government.
b. Poverty and inequality or social inequality.
c. Or much lower
salaries than expected.d. The popular perception.
e. Bureaucratic arrangements or long-winded and not to the point.
f. Insufficient knowledge of the field.
3.In other side Ainan (1982) mentions several causes of corruption are:
a. Formulation of legislation is less than perfect is a lot of loopholes used to perform acts of corruption.
b. Administration of a slow, expensive, and inflexible as well as long-winded.
c. Tradition to supplement the income that is less than the government officials with the tribute or bribe.
d. Where various kinds of corruption is considered as something normal, and is not considered to be contrary to the moral, so people are competing for extensive corruption.
e. In India, for example, rarely condemned for bribery bribe can’t be avoided.
f. According to its culture, Nigeria people can’t resist bribery and corruption, but considers the excessive wealth and the wealth has to be a bribe if it's short life was fine.
g. When people do not respect the official rules and objectives of government, why people should question the act of corruption.
that,
Causes of corruption are:
1. Salaries are still low, less imperfect legislation, the administration is slow and so forth.
2. Legacy of Dutch colonial rule.
3. The attitude of the officials who want to get rich quick with an unlawful manner, there is no state of consciousness, no knowledge of the field work carried out by government officials.
Maybe we can not properly describe the causes of corruption. But what we write here is what we feel and we are experienced in this country.
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