ABSTRACT
Corruption negatively impacts societal cohesion and undermines public faith in government (Seligson 2002; Chang and Chu 2006). Poor and vulnerable people are more dependent on public services than better-o individuals, and, when corruption occurs in the public sector, it has a disproportionate impact on those who can least aord the costs that it imposes (Gupta et al. 2002). On the continent with the largest number of poor people, the case for concerted action by governments to take eective measures to combat corruption is compelling.
