Write an opinion on the extract from the paper “Why Better Governance Measures are Unlikely to Fix the Problem of Corruption” by Francis Fukuyama and Francesca Recanatini.

“The most commonly used definition of corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain. Corruption is about incentives and power and in order to address corruption governments and citizens need to be ready to reallocate power within their countries. For most of human history, governments existed not to provide citizens with public goods on an impersonal basis but because political power was a route to personal enrichment. Governments shift out of a corrupt equilibrium only when they are forced to do so because of very strong political pressure. Corruption exists because it is in the self-interest of entrenched elites to behave in a corrupt fashion. The system will change only if these elites are forced out of power or if their source of rent is at risk; lectures or incentives offered by donor agencies will not do the job (Mungiu – Pippidi et al). Elites not only do not have an incentive to improve governance; they also have an incentive to improve it only on paper (by signing conventions, for example) to keep the donor community and potential foreign investors satisfied.”