This seminar will address governance issues in the public sector, focusing on the long-term economic effects of weak institutions and undue influence on laws, regulations, and policies by powerful corporate interests. The seminar will explore the legal and institutional changes that countries have adopted to address the issue. It will also examine how corruption and other issues of public sector governance might be addressed by inducing individual behavioral change, and a change in underlying shared ethical standards, in contrast to legal change enforced through large repressive instruments. This invites discussion on the role of leadership, public standards of exemplary behavior, and moral guidance of public figures.