The relevance of the investigated problem is caused by the need to develop new and improve the effectiveness of the existing tools for reduction and mitigation of adverse effects of corruption events (transactions) for the economy and society as a whole. In a globalizing world corruption acquired transnational dimensions, affecting the entire international community, the world economy and international relations; therefore it has to be studied at the international level. Transnational nature of corruption dictates the need for international cooperation in the field of corruption prevention and combating. Globalization, giving corruption planetary international character, requires the combined efforts of all the nations (states) in order to restrict this eternal ineradicable evil, and to develop new areas of resistance. To analyze and show the damage caused by corruption, to the society, public administration system, relations between the society and the state, to form basic principles and proposals for consolidation of civil society legal and social instruments in order to combat corruption and limit the phenomena. The article’s leading approach to the analysis of the corruption phenomena is a historical and dialectical method of scientific investigation of corruption as an institutional and structural element of the state. Apart from the historical and dialectical method, methods of structural and functional, statistical and system analysis are used, as well as scientific methods of cognition. This paper shows socio-economic and moral damage caused by corruption to the society, public administration, same as main directions of the fight against corruption phenomena and consolidation of the existing directions’ effectiveness. The article materials may be used to develop and improve the tools to combat corruption phenomena.

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