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PHILIPPINES receives an overall "Moderate" rating in the 2006 Global Integrity Index. The Index assesses national anti-corruption policies and practices in countries around the world. For a printer-friendly .PDF version of this report click here.
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for all 290 Integrity Indicators.
Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.
Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.
Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.
Global Integrity country reports are generated by an in-country team comprising a lead journalist (who prepares the Reporter's Notebook), a lead researcher (who initially scores the Integrity Indicators), and three to five peer reviewers. Global Integrity staff in Washington coordinate the input from all team members and are responsible for final content. For a full description of our methodology and research process please click here.
Reporter's Notebook
Every year, during the week before Christmas, small crowds gather outside the fortress-like home of Rodolfo Pineda, the operator of a vast, illegal gambling network that spans several provinces of the main Philippine island of Luzon.
Pineda lives in his hometown of Lubao, located in the heart of the great Central Luzon plain, a 90-minute drive from Manila. In this sleepy town of rice farmers and assorted tradespeople, the real power lies not in the whitewashed town hall or the centuries-old Catholic Church: It resides in the Pinedas' high-walled, high-security compound. Although the country's biggest gambling lord is reclusive and rarely seen in public, his wife Lilia was the town's mayor for nine years. Their son, Dennis, is the current mayor.
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