Published: 04 March 2023
Corruption is a major obstacle to development, social justice and poverty eradication. Corruption in Bangladesh now centres media and public daily discussion and concern. Thus, various state policies and strategy papers also strongly emphasise establishing good governance, law enforcement and making governance systems suitable for the poor for effectively preventing corruption.
Corruption can occur at various stages of socio-economic activities. Large illegal financial transactions occur via power abuse through collusion of political, administrative and private sector elites impacting the macro and micro scales very extensively. These corruptions spread massive negative impacts on the macro and micro levels of socio-economic conditions. Usually, such corruption is defined as being grand corruption.
Conversely, service recipients face various forms of corruption and irregularities while receiving institutional services. Exchanging small financial amounts with fixed service fees during delivery can be cited as examples of this corruption. Such corruption is defined as petty corruption, which directly or indirectly affects daily lives of thousands of common people and hinders the progress of the state economic and social development. The current survey has documented experiences of common people regarding corruption.
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