What are the consequences of corruption?
Corruption has many corrosive effects, such as – a shortage of essential services such as schools and hospitals; insufficient public facilities; a decline in economic development; a high unemployment rate; poverty and inequality; the facilitation of organised crime such as drugs, arms trade and money laundering; the violation of human rights; the undermining of the rule of law and representative democracy; an increase in political instability; the enrichment of a few at the expense of the majority.
