The World Bank In Anti-Corruption

Fighting corruption has become a policy priority for the development community over the past two decades and extensive reform efforts have been launched. These reforms build on the idea that corruption is a dysfunction of public administration that emerges in the presence of monopoly and discretion, which in turn can be curbed by promoting accountability and transparency. Corruption undermines policies and programs that aim to reduce poverty, so attacking corruption is critical to the achievement of the Bank's overarching mission of poverty reduction.