When and why people pay bribes or use personal connections
Illustration by Meel Tamphanon
transparency – 24 November 2020
Across Asia, the use of personal connections to get ahead is a common practice.
In addition to paying bribes for the services they need, people use their family or social contacts to skip the line or gain quicker and better access to schools and hospitals, and “speed up” government paperwork such as driver’s licenses or birth certificates..
How much you can increase the speed and quality of your service often depends on how much you can pay or who you know.
In the Global Corruption Barometer — Asia, we asked people about how and why they paid bribes or used personal connections when accessing public services across Asia.
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