Monrovia – The United States Agency For International Development advisor for legal professional development and anti-corruption program says large government size is one of the root causes of corruption. Scott Collins was speaking when USAID conducted training on reporting anti-corruption for over 30 judicial reporters from various media institutions in the country. The training, held on March 31 in Mamba Point, is the first of the quarterly workshop that the USAID has promised to offer judicial reporters. During the training program, reporters’ skills about reporting corruption were broadened, and they learned individuals in the public and private sectors behave corrupt during the discharge of their respective duties. “More causes of corruption were large ethic divisions and government size, high level of in-group, favoritism, gender inequality, low degree of integration in world economy, low level of government decentralization and that corruption causes resource of wealth, poverty, political instability, weak property rights, low level of education and low internet access,” said Collins.

Source: Front Page Africa April 01, 2018 22:07 UTC