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Corruption remains a critical barrier to development - undermining public trust, diverting resources from essential services, and impeding economic growth. While traditional anticorruption strategies have focused on legal, regulatory, and institutional reforms, persistent challenges and uneven results from these investments highlight the need for complementary approaches. This policy note introduces a behavioral insights approach to anticorruption, emphasizing the importance of understanding and responding to human factors that drive corrupt behavior. Drawing on recent evidence and practical examples, the note presents an analytical framework for diagnosing the behavioral drivers of corruption and designing targeted interventions. It highlights how integrating behavioral insights alongside institutional reforms can enhance the effectiveness, sustainability, and equity of efforts to address administrative and financial corruption. It explores the incentives, cognitive biases, social norms, and contextual pressures that shape the interactions between public officials, citizens, and private sector actors. The note aims to equip policy makers, practitioners, and project teams with actionable tools to identify context-specific challenges, dynamically adapt promising practices, and implement interventions that make integrity the easier choice.
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