Originally posted by #$%^&*:
Ya, what do you want to know? I thought it's obvious.
Singapore has efficient and effective [b]bureaucracy/ civil service. Here public
officials are well paid, from police sargeants and school teachers
all the way to ministers, MPs, and president.
Here if you get stopped by a policeman, you dont try to give him
$50 bucks, but you will do that in Malaysia or Indonesia.
Here the school teachers are highly trained and highly paid, where
university graduates will join as a teacher gladly.
It seems obvious that the low corruption, effective and efficient
civil service, is because it is managed professionally, and one of
the key of that is high pay.
I know some people think Ministers, MPs, PM, are political leaders
and therefore they should show more.....altruism. I just dont think
it's a good idea to disrupt the system. The higher you are in a
position, the more temptations you have. Precisely these ministers,
MPs, PM, must and should, be in a condusive working environment
where they can concentrate totally in their work, and dont need to
receive gifts or getting lobied by businessmen trying to win
projects.
If you bribe a policeman $50 bucks, that's a small leak in the
system. What about some businessman bribe a minister millions so he
give him some infrastucture project worth billions?
I know there are poor people in Singapore, but trust me if you make
politicians receive low pay, there will be more poor people as a
result. [/b]
Here, bureaucracy mean.........
1. government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty
officials.
2. the body of officials and administrators, esp. of a government
or government department.
3. excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in,
administrative bureaus or administrators.
4. administration characterized by excessive red tape and
routine.
Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or
departments staffed with nonelected officials.
The departments and their officials as a group: promised to
reorganize the federal bureaucracy.
Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among
numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head
did not know much about bureaucracy.
The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a
midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow
rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative
ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy
.
Singapore supposed to be a democratic
society.
