ABSTRACT
Practitioners in the good governance arena have determined that fighting corruption in different countries cannot take on a “cookie-cutter” approach. The way that corruption manifests itself in each country – and in each sector and function of government and society – demands unique and specialized responses to target the causes of the problem. Different types of corruption risk assessment techniques are discussed that help policymakers develop targeted strategies to reduce corruption problems. Research shows that in some situations it can be better to assess not the corruption problem but the anti-corruption successes that have been made to date when recommending the most powerful approaches that will yield improved good governance results.
