Publication

The paper investigates why the measures the World Bank employs to combat corruption are inadequate. According to the author corruption has permeated the World Bank’s development framework under the ‘good governance’ paradigm. He critiques the Bank’s middle level institutional strategy of fighting corruption on the basis that the Bank’s apolitical mandate prevents it from dealing with the power structure that facilitates individuals to be corrupt. He argues that the Bank must concentrate on supervisory measures at the micro level to combat corruption effectively, but that this is not being done because corruption plays a functional role in delivering development projects.