Good Governance and Transparency: The Cases of PIATCO and PEA-AMARI Deal

Abstract

This paper entitled, “Good Governance and Transparency: The Cases of PIATCO and PEA-AMARI Deal,” focused on the two cases (PIATCO and PEA-AMARI Deal) that contained irregularities and corrupt practices which happened to be detrimental to the general public and to the government itself, in order to study the transparency in every state transactions particularly in infrastructure and realty. Therein, the researcher had classified the irregularities into several categories (such us irregularities on the submission of the contracts, the loopholes of the agreements and terms and conditions) in order to come up with appropriate strategies to eliminate or reduce such acts. Thereafter, such strategies were classified into weak or strong as to how these were being used in state transactions (whether it was successful or a failure). As the researcher endeavors to root out the irregularities on the said projects, she comes up with the fact that in any state transactions particularly in infrastructure and realty, corrupt practices and irregularities are possible and do exists. Although no exact pattern of such practices and no data that could quantify such acts, anecdotal evidences would prove that it really exists in state transactions particularly in infrastructure and realty where there are big amounts of money involved.