Today I read in the dailies that the World Bank is giving corruption a whole new meaning. Of course I knew that corruption stretches beyond bribery taking and bribery giving. Illegal preferential employment, service delivery etc--based on ethnicity, regionalism, nepotism etc--is also corruption. But in his African Development Index 2010, Shanta Devarajan asserts that such things as teachers missing from classes or any form of absconding from duties on the part of civil
servants should be considered corruption and should receive as much public attention as mega-grafts do. I cant wait the debate this assertion is going to generate in the field of development economics.
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