However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.
The surest way to discourage corruption is to state clearly strong punishments for defaulters and ensure that the defaulters are made to face the full penalty of the law.
Sadly, even if the punishment is death for you and your entire family, it won't still stop corruption. People will alway find better ways to carry out corrupt practices to avoid getting caught. its no one's fault, it's just the nature of man. Humans always find a way to break the law, some would argue that the law was made to be broken by the same one's who made it, it's just a matter of whose smart enough not to get caught.