Fighting Corruption Is a Global Concern

In Zussmans (2005) article entitled “Fighting Corruption is a Global Concern “, the author explains why the people in the world try to fight the corruption. In addition, the writer shows some statistics from the World Bank about the amount of corruption in the world. Also, he shows some statistics from the UN Development Program about the bribes in the world. Then, the author explains the negative effects of the corruption. Also, the writer points out some ways to combat the corruption in the countries that has a lot of corruption such a creating laws that fight corruption, informing the people these rules, effecting the rules and putting the right people as a executives to these rules. Then, he clarifies how Canada combats the corruption. Finally, he stated that Canada is a do well to fight the corruption depends on their systems. In conclusion, the author tries to clarify the bad effects of the corruption and the best ways to combat it.

It is apparent that the author’s opinion is right in this article. Although there are many drawbacks to combat the corruption because it almost in every organization, but we should increase our power to combat the corruption because it has a lot of negative effects in our social life, economical life and political life.

First of all, there are a lot of negative effects of the corruption on the social life. Actually, corruption causes increase of crimes. For example, when we see country has a lot of corruption that means limited people with a lot of money that usually lead the corruption. On the other hand, the other people are poor. This unfair distribution of money cause increasing the crimes in this country because the poor people try to find money by illicit ways. They will steal money or any financial assets. This is consider to be a crime. Also, corruption leads corruption. In fact, the clean people may depend on corruption to finish their needs. For example, when businessmen need to finish their transaction such a permeation to start a commercial project, businessmen are coerced to pay bribe which is a kind of corruption for the people who work in the government. In fact, increasing crimes and leading to the corruption are the main negative effectives of the corruption in the social life.

Second, the corruption causes negative effects on the economical life. Actually, corruption causes decreasing the efficiency of the work. For example, when some workers work in X country which has a lot of corruption, they will decrease their productivity if they do not receive bribes. In addition, the corruption decreases the investment in X country. For example, if a company decides to invest in any country, it will consider many factors such a cost of workers and the spreading of the corruption. In fact, if the country has a lot of corruption, the company may cancel its plan of investment in this country. So decreasing the productivity and the investment are the main negative effects in economical life.

Third, the corruption causes negative effects on the political life. Actually, it causes a lot of demonstrations from the people who try to combat the corruption. For example, if the country has a lot of corruption, some people who are victims from the corruption will organize demonstrations and that may cause some problems with the government. Also, corruption will cause dissatisfaction with the president of the country which has a lot of corruption. The people will not be satisfied with the president because they may believe that the president is the main reason of the corruption because he has a power to combat or support the corruption. So increasing demonstrations which usually has violent and decreasing the satisfaction with the president of the country are the main effects on the political life.

In conclusion, considering that there are many negative effects of the corruption on the social life, economic life and the political life, we need to fight the corruption . In fact , if we want to save the rights of the people, we should fight the corruption. In order to have a high productivity , we must combat the corruption. If we want a fair distribution of the money, we should fight the corruption. As a result, we should think seriously about the best ways to combat the corruption.



References
Zussmzn, D. (2005, Oct 11). Fighting corruption is a global concern. Ottawa Citizen. pp. 66, 67