SPEAKER :
Prof Robert Klitgaard
Li Ka Shing Professor
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore
SYNOPSIS :
At the end of his classic 1985 book Bribes, John T. Noonan predicted that corruption would someday virtually disappear, like slavery. This may already have happened in Singapore. But in much of the rest of the world, despite corruption being the number one or two issue in political campaigns, corruption persists. Sometimes we even see re-corruption, like re-inflation, where a new regime comes in and old problems recur. What is the future of corruption? Given that the best way to predict the future is to shape it, what might we do to make Noonan's forecast come true?
DATE :
12 August 2012
TIME :
5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m
ORGANISER :
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy