Africa Development Indicators 2010: Quiet Corruption

This essay in the Africa Development Indicators series aims to shed light on a different type of corruption. It introduces the term ‘quiet corruption’ to indicate various types of malpractice of frontline providers that do not involve monetary exchange. This paper details how such practices are undermining Africa’s development by illuminating devastating malpractice; denied an education because of absentee teachers, children suffer in adulthood with low cognitive skills and weak health and the absence of drugs and doctors means unwanted deaths from malaria and other diseases, etc.

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