Much of the corruption that we encounter in public life is circumstantial. That is, government servants turn corrupt in order to recoup the huge expenses that they have themselves had to incur, due to bribes they had to pay to get government jobs, costs exacted by social evils such as dowry, or corruption that the government servants themselves encountered at the entry points of other markets. A strategic policy for reducing corruption therefore should concentrate on making the entry points clean rather than spending resources thinly on curbing corruption everywhere.
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