Corruption and Human Development

Ngoc Anh Tran
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Ngoc Anh Tran: PhD student in Public Policy at Harvard University

No 7, Working Papers from Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN), Vietnam

Abstract: Today, corruption has been recognized as one of the hardest obstacles to international development. It is specially challenging as corruption and underdevelopment mutually reinforces one another, creating a vicious cycle that traps many developing nations. As numerous efforts around the world fail to move countries out of this trap, it has also been recognized that political will is an essential prerequisite for any anti-corruption reform to succeed. Sadly, political will rarely emerges from any corrupt system. A big question remaining open in the literature and practice is: where does political will come from?

Keywords: Corruption trap; Human capital; Social capital; Information capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2008
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