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Description of  PER DIEM, The Petty Corruption That Hurts

In Africa, hunting for per diems has become a business and a job in itself. This widespread trend across the administrations of African countries, in addition to being harmful in itself for the diversion of funds it generates, induces behaviors that undermine development efforts. This is the heart of this book, which shows how the mad scramble to amass more and more per diems is leading to postures and actions that are at odds with the development objectives that the continent so badly needs to see achieved. The objective of maximizing per diems having taken precedence, development activities are now at the service of this goal. Development activities are nowadays mostly planned and implemented only to the extent that they generate per diems, to the detriment of their impact on development. The author is sounding the alarm about the ravages of this silent killer, and offers solutions for better regulation and management of per diems systems, which, according to him, should regain their role as an instrument at the service of development rather than remaining a tool at the service of corruption.