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What country is that?

by _vn5r 10y ago

coconut_crab 10y ago
Vietnam, ranks 110 or so in transparency index
- camillomiller 10y ago
  Recently visited. It's a wonderful country. I loved the people, I love their pride and attitude. It's clear that you got some problems here and there (and maybe the family concept is a bit too strong). All in all, for me it's been just a wow after another. I met very few Americans, and each one of them was completely flabbergasted by how far the country and the people are from what they've been taught.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >ranks 110 or so in transparency index Those "transparency indexes" tend to reflect the biases (cultural and political) and the interests of the major contributors to the organizations that produce them (including organizations like OECD). And unlike measurable data, where you can double check, here you have to agree not just on the methodology, but on the validity of various sources, self-reporting (which is often used as a proxy), etc.
- unixhero 10y ago
  Corruption Perception Index is a better measure of corruption.
  - marcosdumay 10y ago
    Both indexes have a tendency of growing on countries that are fighting corruption, and shrinking on the ones where people can get away with it. The GINI coefficient may be a better proxy than those targeted measurements.
- jimmies 10y ago
  Coconut_crab, holy shit... I recognized your nickname from the VnOSS forum 10 years ago, so before I saw your answer, I already knew it. It's amazing you're still around. Hope you're still doing well.
- stickfigure 10y ago
  Lovely country (excepting the smog in HCM) and lovely people. Until recently I had a company whose customers were primarily digital marketers in Vietnam. My anecdotal observation is that tax compliance is generally poor and enforcement is applied unevenly. While whinging about taxes is a national pastime here in the US, we have one of the highest tax compliance rates in the world. These might be related. And it's not true that you can make taxes go away with accounting magic, although there seems to be a growing sentiment that "the other guy is doing it". Example: Bourdain's comment about avoiding taxes by living abroad is nonsense.
  - AstralStorm 10y ago
    Are those compliance rates weighted per income or per person?
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What country is that?

by _vn5r 10y ago

What country is that?

coconut_crab 10y ago

Vietnam, ranks 110 or so in transparency index

camillomiller 10y ago
Recently visited. It's a wonderful country. I loved the people, I love their pride and attitude. It's clear that you got some problems here and there (and maybe the family concept is a bit too strong). All in all, for me it's been just a wow after another. I met very few Americans, and each one of them was completely flabbergasted by how far the country and the people are from what they've been taught.
coldtea 10y ago
>ranks 110 or so in transparency index Those "transparency indexes" tend to reflect the biases (cultural and political) and the interests of the major contributors to the organizations that produce them (including organizations like OECD). And unlike measurable data, where you can double check, here you have to agree not just on the methodology, but on the validity of various sources, self-reporting (which is often used as a proxy), etc.
unixhero 10y ago
Corruption Perception Index is a better measure of corruption.
- marcosdumay 10y ago
  Both indexes have a tendency of growing on countries that are fighting corruption, and shrinking on the ones where people can get away with it. The GINI coefficient may be a better proxy than those targeted measurements.
jimmies 10y ago
Coconut_crab, holy shit... I recognized your nickname from the VnOSS forum 10 years ago, so before I saw your answer, I already knew it. It's amazing you're still around. Hope you're still doing well.
stickfigure 10y ago
Lovely country (excepting the smog in HCM) and lovely people. Until recently I had a company whose customers were primarily digital marketers in Vietnam. My anecdotal observation is that tax compliance is generally poor and enforcement is applied unevenly. While whinging about taxes is a national pastime here in the US, we have one of the highest tax compliance rates in the world. These might be related. And it's not true that you can make taxes go away with accounting magic, although there seems to be a growing sentiment that "the other guy is doing it". Example: Bourdain's comment about avoiding taxes by living abroad is nonsense.
- AstralStorm 10y ago
  Are those compliance rates weighted per income or per person?

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