Foreword: Why do we fight corruption?

For those “in the know”, this is a rhetorical question. Corruption is bad, and we know it. Or do we really?

Thankfully, the economist-led debates in the 1990s about whether corruption is the necessary grease in the wheels of business are long behind. But we would argue that many people, including those most affected by it, still don’t fully grasp what corruption does to our world.