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07-01-09 Jinggoy says WB report on deteriorated RP governance validates people’s criticism of Arroyo “misrule”
Posted: July 2nd, 2009 @ 1:19am
The latest World Bank report which showed that governance in the Philippines has worsened in the last ten years validates the Filipinos’ long-time criticisms of what has been seen as “misrule” by the Arroyo administration.
This was underscored today by Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, chair of the upper chamber’s Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development and the joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Labor and Employment.
Estrada noted the recently-released World Bank’s 1998-2008 comparative Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) report which revealed that the Philippines’ performance deeply worsened in five out of six major dimensions of governance.
Governance was generally defined in the WGI report as "the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised,” while the six dimensions of governance were explained as follows:
1. Voice and accountability: the extent to which a country's citizens are able to participate in selecting their government, as well as freedom of expression, association and the press (the Philippines scored -0.20 in 2008 from 0.39 in 1998 in this dimension);
2. Political stability and absence of violence: on the likelihood that government will be destabilized by unconstitutional or violent means (-1.41 from -0.17);
3. Regulatory quality: the ability of government to provide sound policies and regulations that enable and promote private sector development (-0.05 from 0.03);
4. Rule of law, or the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society (-0.49 from -0.1); and,
5. Control of corruption, or the prevention of the use of public power for private gain (where the Philippines scored -0.75 in 2008 from -0.4 in 1998).
“Clearly, the most effective measures in governance as shown in the ten-year scope of the World Bank report were undertaken by the Philippine government in 1998, or during the first year of President Joseph Estrada's term,” the senator noted, adding:
“But those governance measures initiated then by my father were discontinued by the Arroyo administration and we have thus, since then, been witnesses to issues of large-scale corruption and scandals of historic proportions, such as the Hello Garci election cheating and manipulation issue; the fertilizer fund scam; the NBN-ZTE deal controversy; wanton violation of the Constitution and other laws of the land; and, so many others.”
The WGI covered 212 countries and territories, utilizing hundreds of variables from 35 different data sources to capture the views of tens of thousands of survey respondents from private, non-government and public sectors around the world.
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