Corruption:A big danger to society
Bad politics and corruption are ideally addressed together. Doing so is not expensive compared to the budgets wasted if these problems go unchecked. 11/05/23 Corruption is not just money wasted...Corruption fuels bad systems: bad policy ('policy capture'), bad politics. Photo: @hamsiiidrisCC BY-NC-ND This post was first published on the Oxfam blog From Poverty to Power, edited by Duncan Green. In December 2021 I left the UK Government after 20 years as a governance adviser, and then research commissioner, and became Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre in Norway. After 20 years of being a ‘flexpert’, spread thinly across multiple issues, I wanted to zero in on corruption because tackling it is a means to many bigger ends. It’s a major constraint (but not the only governance constraint) to delivering ‘development outcomes’, changing real lives, and maximising bangs for bucks, in health, education, climate change – everything. The ‘anti-corruption community’ is a sp...