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Over the past two decades, development scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have grown increasingly aware of corruption’s deleterious impacts on economic growth, governance institutions, political stability and freedoms, social trust and opportunities, and overall equality and efficiency within and across countries. This course examines critically corruption both as a phenomenon and as a target for development-oriented initiatives. It analyzes how we define, measure, explain, and characterize corruption in its myriad forms and considers how the causes and consequences of corruption may vary across environments. It explores domestic and international responses to corruption, including the roles of state, non-state, and foreign actors, and scrutinizes the intersections and interrelationships between corruption and development assistance. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>