The document discusses corruption, outlining its definition, types (petty and political), common forms (theft, fraud, improper political contributions), characteristics, impacts (hinders development, increases poverty, undermines democracy), and roles of media, government, and citizens in eradicating it. It concludes that corruption is an illegal act that produces private gains through abuse of public power and should be eliminated to improve countries.

1. Presented by Nayyer Luqman
ICMAP
Roll # 344

2. Areas
of
Discussion
04 Characteristics of Corrpution
02 Types of Corrpution
03 Common forms of Corrpution
01 Corrpution
05 Impacts of Corrpution
06 Role of Media & Governmenet
07 Role of Us to eradicate Corrpution
08 Conclusion

3. Corruption
Corruption is defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain – Transparency
International 2004.
Some define it as covering only public positions (for example, Kasper 2006), but it is generally
recognized that those with private power can also be found guilty of corruption.
Corruption hurts the poor disproportionately by diverting funds intended for development,
undermining a government's ability to provide basic services, feeding inequality and injustice,
and by discouraging foreign investment and aid.

4. Types of Corruption
Petty Corruption
Petty corruption refers to
everyday abuse of entrusted
power by low and mid-level
public officials in their
interactions with ordinary
citizens, who often are trying to
access basic goods or services
in places like hospitals, schools,
police departments and other
agencies.
Political Corruption
Political corruption includes
both accumulation and
extraction and where
government officials use and
abuse their hold on power to
extract from the private sector,
from government revenues,
and from the economy at
large.

5. Common forms of Corruption
?
Theft and Fraud
Improper political contribution

6. Common Characteristics of Corruption
- Gap between group and individual interest
- Consenting adults that have a common understanding
- Misuse of the power that often drives a wedge between intended and stated positions, for
unintended benefits
- Two or more parties since one can hardly be corrupt with one’s own self
- Benefit furtherance
- Existence of power that could be grabbed, usurped, entrusted or otherwise available

7. Globalization of Corruption
Globalization has increased the risk of
corruption but has also increased the
opportunities to curb it.

8. Impacts of Corruption
Hinders social
and economic
development
Increases poverty
by diverting
domestic and
foreign investment
Undermines
democracy by
distorting
electoral
processes
Undermining
government
institutions, which
can lead to
political
instability
Weakens
education &
health systems,
depriving people
of the basic
building blocks of
life
Worsens inequality and
injustice by perverting
the rule of law and
punishing victims of
crime through corrupt
rulings

9. Role of Media & Government
The media can:
- Expose corruption
- Send open and transparent flow of
information
- Fostering a climate of opinion that
is increasingly intolerant of
corruption.
The Government can:
- Strengthen the civil service
- Support citizen action
- An important factor is where the
anti-corruption agency is in
government; if it reports to the
office of the prime minister, for
example, it can be used as a
weapon against political
opponents. Ideally the ACA should
be a completely independent
body.

10. What should we do!!!
Joint efforts
Establish benchmarks of quality
Encourage codes of conduct in the private sector
Establish the right to information
Exploit new technology

11. Conclusion
Corruption, as we know is the criminal thing that when done by a person in a certain capacity
especially with negative connotation, produce illegal things to make a benefit for one’s own
self.
So, corruption is an illegal thing that we should not be doing, because, without corruption we
can be a good generation for our country. And then we can make our country clear from
corruption and make our country better.