Filipinos polled more accepting of bribery than most of Asia

Just 30.6% of respondents outright rejected bribery relative to Japan's 81%, S'pore's 81.7%

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Only three in 10 Filipinos believe bribery is “never justifiable”, making the Philippines one of the most tolerant countries towards bribery in Asia, based on the latest findings from the World Values Survey (7th Wave).

According to the dataset analysed by Dr Rogelio Alicor Panao, Inquirer Metrics data scientist and associate professor at the University of the Philippines, just 30.6 per cent of Filipino respondents outright rejected bribery — much lower than in Indonesia (70.4 per cent), Thailand (69.9 per cent), or high-capacity states like Japan (81 per cent) and Singapore (81.7 per cent), where “outright rejection is nearly universal”.

At the other extreme, 7.9 per cent of Filipinos said bribery is “always justifiable”, the highest rate in the region.