Also in 2005, when the first Provincial Competitiveness Index was launched, the Communist Party commissioned an unprecedented survey that confirmed nearly a third of government employees in Vietnam admitted they would take a bribe, if one were offered.In the same year, the National Assembly -- the national legislature -- passed Vietnam's first anti-corruption law. Ever since, the country’s top leaders have repeatedly pledged to launch no-holds-barred crackdown on corruption -- to little effect.In 2014, Vietnam ranked 119th out of 175 countries in the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions, 126th on the World Bank’s Control of Corruption Index, and 74th on the International Country Risk’s Guide corruption rankings.“The government and the Party have announced their intentions to deal with these problems but implementation has been patchy and slow,” a foreign diplomat told Thanh Nien News on condition of anonymity
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