Natural Resources Democracy And Corruption
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Natural Resources Democracy And Corruption
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Author : Sambit Bhattacharyya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Natural Resources Democracy And Corruption written by Sambit Bhattacharyya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Corruption categories.
We study how natural resources can feed corruption and how this effect depends on the quality of the democratic institutions. Our game-theoretic model predicts that natural resources lead to an increase in corruption if the quality of the democratic institutions is relatively poor, but not otherwise. We use panel data covering the period 1980 to 2004 and 99 countries to test this theoretical prediction. Our estimates confirm that the relationship between resource abundance and corruption depends on the quality of the democratic institutions. In particular, resource abundance is positively associated with corruption only in countries that have endured a nondemocratic regime for more than 60 percent of the years since 1956. Our main results hold when we control for the effects of income, time varying common shocks, regional fixed effects and various additional covariates. They are also robust to various alternative measures of natural resources, corruption and the quality of the democratic institutions. These findings imply that democratization can be a powerful tool to reduce corruption in resource-rich countries.
Resources For Sale
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Resources For Sale written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Bribery categories.
Corruption Natural Resources And Development
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Author : Aled Williams
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2017-01-27
Corruption Natural Resources And Development written by Aled Williams and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-27 with Law categories.
This book provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of political ecology approaches, this volume provides a series of nuanced and policy-relevant case studies analyzing patterns of corruption around natural resources and options to reach anti-corruption goals. The potential for new variations of the resource curse in the forest and urban land sectors and the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies in resource sectors are considered in depth. Corruption in oil, gas, mining, fisheries, biofuel, wildlife, forestry and urban land are all covered, and potential solutions discussed.
Corruption Development And The Environment
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Author : Lorenzo Pellegrini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-02-11
Corruption Development And The Environment written by Lorenzo Pellegrini and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-11 with Business & Economics categories.
The book analyses the influence of corruption on economic growth and environmental protection, examining corruption from different perspectives. It contributes to several streams of the literature and assembles evidence of the influence of corruption on two important variables in human welfare: income and environmental policies. The material evinces the detrimental effect that corruption has on economic growth and on the stringency of environmental policies. It also shows that standard techniques for fighting corruption are often based either on simplistic definitions or on strong assumptions that do not apply in many countries blighted by corruption. From a methodological standpoint, this work combines a number of approaches including a theoretical discussion of corruption and of its definition (often omitted in economic studies), together with econometrics, case studies and policy discussions.
Does Mother Nature Corrupt Natural Resources Corruption And Economic Growth
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Author : Mr.Carlos Leite
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 1999-07-01
Does Mother Nature Corrupt Natural Resources Corruption And Economic Growth written by Mr.Carlos Leite and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-01 with Social Science categories.
This paper argues that natural resource abundance creates opportunities for rent-seeking behavior and is an important factor in determining a country’s level of corruption. In a simple growth model, we illustrate the interrelationships between natural resources, corruption, and economic growth, and discuss potential anti-corruption policies. We show that the extent of corruption depends on natural resource abundance, government policies, and the concentration of bureaucratic power. Furthermore, the growth effects of natural resource discoveries and anticorruption policies crucially depend on the economy’s state of development. We empirically corroborate the model’s implications in a cross-country framework with both corruption and growth endogenized.
The Scramble For African Oil
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Author : Douglas Andrew Yates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Scramble For African Oil written by Douglas Andrew Yates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Petroleum industry and trade categories.
How Western control of Africa's oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy, and how African people have resisted
The Political Economy Of The Natural Resource Curse
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Author : Robert T. Deacon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Political Economy Of The Natural Resource Curse written by Robert T. Deacon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Political Science categories.
The Political Economy of the Natural Resources Curse focuses on political economy theories of the resource curse and scrutinizes how well, or poorly, these theories have been integrated with empirical work. One reason why this integration is important lies in the practical importance of pinning down the causal links involved in the resource curse. A second reason for focusing on integration of theory and empirics is that the resource curse is a potentially fruitful venue for testing political economy theories generally. The Political Economy of the Natural Resources Curse starts with an overview of the broader economic literature on the resource curse, explaining how interest first arose and summarizing the market-based and political economy theories developed to explain it. After these preliminaries, the focus tightens to political economy research on the resource curse and examines theories and empirical evidence on the link between political conditions and perverse responses to resource booms. Section 3 reviews political economy theories of the resource curse based on rent-seeking. Section 4 reviews political economy theories that incorporate institutions explicitly. Papers offering general empirical findings without developing new theory are covered in Section 5. Conclusions are presented in Section 6 and focus on strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature, whether empirical analysis has successfully corroborated or refuted predictions from theoretical analysis, opportunities for future empirical research, and the question of whether or not the resource curse is a 'real' phenomenon.
Waiting For Democracy
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Author : Jesse Craig Ribot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Waiting For Democracy written by Jesse Craig Ribot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
References pp. 115-132.
Economics Of Corruption By Democracy
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Author : Rasit Pertev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Economics Of Corruption By Democracy written by Rasit Pertev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
We investigate democracies where citizens vote on basis of personal gains, guaranteed individually through direct contracts with political parties. Once a political party wins the elections, it is expected to honour its contracts with individuals. We show that such a system is both feasible and applicable, in large and small states alike, where democracy merely serves as a competitive mechanism determining which group of persons will benefit - though unjustly - from state resources and privileges. This is a free democratic contest, where individuals, citizens and the elite alike, can easily move and even change sides. We also show that such systems are very stable and do not readily generate endogenous forces in favour of good governance. We also deduce that such systems, due to their dependence on a non-fiscal surplus, have a compelling tendency to block the path to development, be exploitative of environment, extractive and natural resources, and to squander funds, including those for development cooperation. In the absence of clarity on concepts on the part of the international community, such systems are impervious to good governance initiatives. Governments are usually able to use such moves in their favour, by shifting attention to marginal or superficial issues unthreatening to system's continuity e.g. reduction of lower-level baksheesh and legal reforms not intended to be enforced. The findings also point out the overwhelming need to scrutinize democracies, as democracies are a necessary but not a sufficient condition for good governance. As this model clearly shows, democracy without good governance is corruption by majority. It is also argued that all democracies are, deep down, klepto-democracies as described above, with an endogenous characteristic which can resurface any time societal and institutional guards are down - in multiple and complex forms of corruption.
Political Corruption In Africa
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Author : Inge Amundsen
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
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Political Corruption In Africa written by Inge Amundsen and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Political Science categories.
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue that political corruption includes two basic, critical and related processes: extractive and power-preserving corruption.
