Hong Kong and Singapore, which also count among Asia's four "little tigers," were also bedeviled by corruption during their periods of rapid economic development. But because their governments took effective measures against corruption, society generally took a turn for the cleaner.
同樣屬於「亞洲四小龍」的香港及新加坡，也在經濟迅速發展之際，頻傳貪汙舞弊，然而因政府有效地打擊貪汙，社會風氣由涿轉清。