Reducing the need for administrative decisions such as approvals and permits will eliminate the need for corruption. No decision means no corruption motive. E-governance and online automatic forms completion, automated decisions, may also do the trick, no administrators means no corruption.

CORRUPTION is a cause of widening the rich and the poor to two extremes and of making the middle class the "new poor." CORRUPTION could be a social phenomenon. It could embed into the life of ordinary people in many forms, such as even telling white lies for convenience. In the life of ordinary people, a connecting keyword is CULTURE. Education could be a solution. But education is slow. A full cycle is about 40 years (some say 20 years; this I disagree.)

There is no quick fix. The fix has to be for the long run. Thus, any solutions for the short run must be to integrate into a master plan. This needs commitment from the Government, from the Academic sector, and from everybody who RECOGNIZEs that corruption is bad. A short-run fix is good as the first step.

However, there are many people (especially in a corrupt country) who will NOT ACT but will TALK ONLY. I call them the people from NATO (No Action Talk Only). Therefore for policy and for the implementation of policy, any policy could be good enough as a start. However, to be meaningful, a solution should be through innovative curricula with the following segment: elementary (from 7 years of age), junior high school, senior high school, and college. INTEGRATION is crucial. COMMITMENT is crucial. Other important elements are the CHANGE AGENT and OPINION LEADERS. A policy involving any or all of these could be explored. Another keyword is CONTEXT. An effective policy should be contextual. Therefore, I suggest that you elaborate this in your topic (assuming that you want the answers to be context specific). 

Corruption has three elements: (1) discretionary power of a government officer over a decision  (2) economic rents associated with the corrupt act and (3) the likelihood that the corrupt act will remain undetected and/or unpunished. It is often  very difficult, if not impossible, to remove the discretionary power. Hence, societies which wish reduce corruption may focus on (2) and (3) above. A vast body of  empirical literature on corruption suggests that  strengthening the political institutions (e.g., independent and effective judiciary, freedom of press, strong anti-corruption legislation) is the most effective way of fighting corruption. In the short  run and at the organisational level, strong monitoring and honesty of corporate leadership are important in controlling corruption.

Power corrupst and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Meritocracy can resolve the issue, or even probably '' proper constructive anarchy''' , a non-coercive symmetric power distribution .