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Africans more optimistic than Pinoys about their govt's anti-graft moves

MANILA, Philippines - Residents of Sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s poorest region, are more optimistic than Filipinos about their government’s anti-corruption efforts.

These were among the results of the 2009 Global Corruption Barometer Report from Berlin-based Transparency International, a global group that helps fight graft.

Citizens of countries from Sub-Saharan Africa have given their respective governments better ratings for their anti-corruption efforts, with 72 percent of Senegalese saying that anti-graft moves are ineffective.

These ratings are better than the turnout for the Philippines, a developing country which posted its fastest growth in two decades two years ago.

Nearly eight out of 10 Filipinos believed that efforts to curb corruption were ineffective, the group’s study said.

Seventy-seven percent of 1,000 Filipino respondents graded the government's effort in its fight against corruption as lacking.

While 21 percent said Manila's efforts were effective, one percent said the campaign against corruption was neither effective or ineffective.

Compared with other nations in the Asia-Pacific, the Philippines had the second-highest number of respondents which perceived that government's fight against corruption was barely making a dent, following South Korea's 81 percent.

The number was even higher than the 56-percent average of respondents in the region saying their government's effort to stop corruption was lacking.

"...The perception of government effectiveness appears to have decreased in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Malaysia, Panama, the Philippines, Senegal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela," TI said.

Governments were considered to be ineffective in the fight against corruption – a view that has remained worryingly consistent in most countries over time.

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