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Emmanuel Reyme
Director, United States

Fighthing Corruption in Developing Countries. The Role of Leaders

I am looking for ideas to start a study on how to "eliminate" corruption in developing countries. Actually, most developing countries depend on rich countries and international organizations to run their internal affairs. On a leadership standpoint, what could effective leaders do?
At a time rich countries start cutting their budget to overcome economic disasters, developing countries increase their expenses and their social projects. What could we do as leaders? I would like to have ideas from various sources across the world.
 

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I am living in a developing country where corruption is one of the biggest barriers to prosperity:
- Corruption takes away the money from where it must be spent, private houses in stead of infrastructure, luxury cars in stead of schools etc.
- Corruption prevents the business from effectiveness: long and complicated procedures to force people to pay for doing business, raising cost and discouraging the investors etc and a thousand other problems caused by the corruption.
But your question is how to eliminate it?
It is hard and surely there are many ways, but as a leader, what we can do is to adopt a pure and clean position in whatever we do (don't be corrupted and say no to any kind of practices that directly or indirectly support the corruption) and transfer in our surroundings (company, family, group and society). Or simply, be a anti-corrupted example. Despite of the disadvantages caused by this practices.

 
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topic Are the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) Brand Conscious Consumers?
👀Fighthing Corruption in Developing Countries. The Role of Leaders
topic The Role of Government in Bottom of the Pyramid Thinking
topic Increase the Whole Pyramid
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topic Bottom of the Pyramid and Technology
topic Bottom of the Pyramid Concept by CK Prahalad is Profound
topic Bottom of the Pyramid People and SMEs
topic The BOO Model, BOOM Model and BOOT Model. Implementation in BOP Countries
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topic Packaging at the Bottom of the Pyramid
topic Using House of Quality With Bottom of the Pyramid Framework
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topic Enabling Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) Entrepreneurs
topic Problems with Bottom of Pyramid
topic Responsibility of International Corporations
topic Rural Marketing - Rural (Tourism) Marketing
topic Why Informal Economies can Become Larger than Illegal Economies
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