If corruption is as widespread as it is believed and its effects so dire, what can be done to curb it and what makes Transparency Internationals approach special?
There is no “quick fix”, no “magic bullet” for curbing corruption. But given its negative consequences, corruption is a phenomenon that has to be confronted and contained. Realistically, we can’t expect to eradicate corruption completely but we must aim at curbing the “grand corruption” (at the level of senior public figures) which paralyses and distorts development. We are trying to achieve this by working at two different levels. First by assisting developing nations and countries in transition in mobilising efforts to confront their corruption problems.We strongly believe that the involvement of civil society is essential for such efforts to be successful. Each country must find its own solutions to its own problems. Solutions cannot be forced upon them from the outside. Transparency International therefore works with local national chapters and feeds experience elsewhere into national discussions to ensure that this is fully informed, but Transparency International is essentially a
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