ranjan

Behavioral change approaches have increasingly gained ground in policy making as they aim to influence how people behave and make decisions. These policies require for an understanding of the psychology of corruption, and second a holistic approach to influence both the mind and environment in which the individual make decisions. Corruption at all levels of societies is a behavioural consequence of power and greed.  The majority of corruption cases in the world involve some form of  contracting. This comes as no surprise as contracts are the main vehicles to spend Govt's budgets. We tend to see corruption in contracting  as a technical problem, when it actually is a behavioral one. The obvious path to address a technical problem is to insist on legal reform. Checklists, adopting standardized laws, or implementing a new E-procurement system do not suffice. Taking human behavior out of the equation does not make Govt. less vulnerable to corruption. It just displaces the risks to o