Corruption: Causes, Manifestations, Effects, and Counter Measures

Anti-corruption chorus has ratcheted up, as the seriously affected, good governance advocates, and anti waste advocates. Articles featured in this book attempt to highlight and discuss root causes, transmission media, effects of corruption and proven actionable counter corruption measures. The cruaimportance of culture and its manifestations in curbing corruption scourge is exhaustively explored by identifying aspects with conducive as well as ¿counteracting¿ effects on corruption in case of Indonesia. Culture is posited as the last bastion in the anti-corruption drive. Two articles in the volume highlight the generic causes, manifestations, and effects of corruption on developing countries in general and business sector in particular, while another explores the poverty-corruption nexus and establishes a positive simultaneous link between poverty and corruption. The need for long-term, varied, multidimensional,and participatory, rather than piecemeal,sporadic,ad hoc,sectoral anti-corruption measures is underscored in another article. Democracy amid decentralization efforts and its impact on public expectations, service delivery perception, corruption completes the volume