Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment

Title:
Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment
Speaker:
Efosa Ojomo
Description:

Traditional thinking on corruption goes like this: if you put good laws in place and enforce them well, then economic development increases and corruption falls. In reality, we have the equation backwards, says innovation researcher Efosa Ojomo. In this compelling talk, he offers new thinking on how we could potentially eliminate corruption worldwide by focusing on one thing: scarcity. "Societies don't develop because they've reduced corruption," he says. "They're able to reduce corruption because they've developed."

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
11:45
Format: HTML5
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Original