Rethinking anti-corruption efforts in international development

What is it about?

The idea that corruption hinders economic development has become very popular in international development, and has led almost all development agencies to implement anti-corruption programmes. Most of these programmes however fail and the evidence that corruption is such a big impediment to development is actually quite shaky. This article shows that corruption does not necessarily hinder economic growth, and that viewing corruption by definition as a huge problem is bound to lead to more failed anti-corruption efforts, to the detriment of developing countries.

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