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Corruption and Development
An Anatomy of Anti-Corruption Strategies
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Corruption is widely acknowledged as a brake on growth, trust, and institutional legitimacy, yet efforts to eliminate it have repeatedly fallen short. This lecture revisits the idea of corruption not just as a moral failure, but as a behavioural and systemic challenge, one shaped by incentives, norms, and the structures within which people operate.
Drawing on international experience, advances in technology, and evolving research on human behaviour, the session examines why many anti-corruption strategies falter, and how poorly designed policies can sometimes deepen the very problems they aim to solve. Rather than offering easy solutions, the lecture invites a more careful reckoning with what we know about changing behaviour at scale, and whether corruption can ever be fully eradicated, or only meaningfully constrained.
This lecture is a part of Vidyashilp University’s Public Lecture Series.
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Ajit Mishra
Prof. Ajit Mishra is Professor and Head of Department of Economics at the University of Bath. He has held positions at the Delhi School of Economics, where he had completed his MA and PhD, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, and the University of Dundee. He has served as Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and has had visiting positions at several institutions including Ashoka University, Boston University Cornell University, and Stellenbosch University.
Among his published books are The Economics of Corruption (2005, OUP), Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development, co-edited with Tridip Ray (2017, OUP); Law and Economic Development: Behavioral and Moral Foundations of a Changing World, co-edited with Kaushik Basu (2023, Palgrave Macmillan); and Political Economy of Corruption, co-edited with Chandan Jha and Sudipta Sarangi (2023, Routledge).
