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Published: 16 Mar 2010
Africa Development Indicators 2010 (March 2010)
This essay, entitled 'Silent and Lethal: How quiet corruption undermines Africa's development efforts', from the World Bank, finds that "quiet corruption" - the failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments - is pervasive and widespread across Africa and is having a disproportionate effect on the poor, with long-term consequences for development.