Corruption Assignment 1

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1. Explain the claim made in the passage societies are likely to decline due to corruption. Corruption can be defined as the abuse of entrusted power for personal gain. When one look at it from a social point of view, it is evident that when money is supposed to be used for the improvement of the society like building of infrastructure such as roads, bridges and railroads gets spend for personal well-being of individuals, the society will decline, as the money that were supposed to go to upgrade of the infrastructure is no longer available which have a negative effect on that society. If roads deteriorate, logistics will become a problem. You will see it for instance in sky rocketing food prices. Transport cost of the food to and from markets will increase as the trucks loose tyres on the roads, the only way producers will make this extra cost up is by asking the consumer more for the products, now the consumer don’t have as much money left for luxuries, and the snowball effect keeps on getting bigger causing societies to deteriorate even further. 2. What do you think is an effective way of fighting corruption? Motivate your response. I would say by creating a transparent, accountable system of governance. Anti-corruption work is not just about punishing the corrupt, although prosecution of corrupt individuals is important to demonstrate that corruption is not tolerated and no one, neither the highest government official nor the wealthiest businessperson, is immune from prosecution. However, a holistic approach to addressing corruption goes further than criminalisation and prosecution: it involves preventing it, by building transparent, accountable systems of governance and strengthening the capacity of civil society and the media as well as improving public integrity, strengthening the personal ethics of public and private officials, and perhaps even

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