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COMBATING CORRUPTION IN BANGLADESH: SOME STRATEGIES
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COMBATING CORRUPTION IN BANGLADESH: SOME STRATEGIES -Abdulla Al Mamun ABSTRACT Corruption is an international problem that requires international solution. It is a universal complex phenomenon. Corruption is one form or another existed since time immemorial. Its roots lie deep in bureaucratic and political institutions and its effect on development varies with country conditions. In a country such as Bangladesh, corruption and other forms of weak governance are an impediment to the reduction of poverty. Economic growth is essential to reduce poverty, and corruption slows economic growth. The poor suffer from corruption in many ways. Their access to services, such as public health and education, is reduced when drugs and textbooks are stolen from public facilities and sold privately and when doctors and teachers have high rates of absenteeism from their public jobs and sell their services privately. Corruption invariably channels public resources to the rich-the poor lack the funds to bribe or pay for...
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