Lecture 1

Governance and corruption:

· Introduction, theories of governance corruption

· Countries mix good and bad governance.

· Deadline for 1^st Assignment

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Lecture 2

Nature of corruption in developing countries

Lecture 3

Exploitation of National Government:

Lecture 4

People’s perception of corruption at gross root level:

· How people see institutions in developing economies

· Why public services differ

· Experience of bribery in different forms and theories of who pays bribers

· Discuss 1^st Assignment

Working Seminar 1

Discussing the influence of colonial powers on today’s developing countries and theories of path dependency.

Lecture 5

Corruption impact on public:

· Theories of impact of corruption on citizens

· Impact of corruption on voting behaviour

· Reducing public spending, failure of foreign aid

· Corruption reduces public trust on government officials.

· Deadline for 2^nd Assignment

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Working Seminar 2

· Discussing why anti-corruption reforms fail in developing countries?

· Discussing anti-corruption policies analysis (plurality of anti-corruption strategies)

Lecture 6

Corruption and human rights:

· Concepts of relationship between human rights (with respect to human development) and corruption.

· Discuss 2nd Asssignment

Lecture 7

Governmental transparency:

Working Seminar 3: Corruption and convergence of human development, discussing data from around the world during 1990-2012

Lecture 8

Curbing corruption:

· Role of institutions

· Anti-corruption legislations,

· Focus on corruption pron public sectors,

· Implications of good governance.

· Discuss 3^rd Assignment

Seminar 4: Discussing theories of exclusive and inclusive economic and political institutions and their effects on public policy.