International Cooperation Against Corruption
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چکیده
Virtually all forms of corruption are proscribed by virtually all countries. Why, then, don’t countries optimally reduce corruption? If countries have trouble fighting corruption, it may be because of insufficient will or insufficient local capacities of several kinds. These capacities include having proper strategies and structures (including incentive structures) that would optimally inhibit corruption. Sometimes these are constrained by costs, other times by a lack of know-how, even by the fact that some countries have not yet thought hard about strategies against corruption.
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