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SUMMARY:Corruption in India: When Preaching Piety is Not Enough - Professo
 r Pranab Bardhan (Department of Economics\, University of California\, Ber
 keley)
DTSTART:20140317T173000Z
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CONTACT:CRASSH
DESCRIPTION:Corruption has been at the top of public political discussion 
 in India in recent years. While the general discussion is in terms of laps
 es in morals or leadership failures\, institutional economics takes a diff
 erent approach to the understanding of the incidence of corruption and the
  policies relevant to alleviating it. The talk will illustrate this approa
 ch in the context of India. After pointing out some definitional issues on
  corruption\, it will go into the supposedly  paradoxical perception that 
 corruption has increased instead of diminishing in the years after economi
 c liberalization. It will examine the current demand for the Lokpal (ombud
 sman) and the enactment of the Lokpal Act of 2014. It will show how in thi
 s process some of the institutional\, organizational and incentive issues 
 have been overlooked\, and how some other kinds of reforms may be more use
 ful. It will also point out ways in which over-zealousness in anti-corrupt
 ion movements can be counter-productive.\n\nThis is a public lecture (free
  and open to all) part of the conference "Institutions and their Disconten
 ts: Rethinking Economic Development in South Asia"\n\nFor more information
 \, see: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25522
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, West Road (Room SG1/SG2)
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