Today, corruption has been recognized as one of the hardest obstacles to international
development. It is specially challenging as corruption and underdevelopment mutually reinforces
one another, creating a vicious cycle that traps many developing nations. As numerous efforts
around the world fail to move countries out of this trap, it has also been recognized that political
will is an essential prerequisite for any anti-corruption reform to succeed. Sadly, political will
rarely emerges from any corrupt system. A big question remaining open in the literature and
practice is: where does political will come from?