Impact of natural disaster on public sector corruption

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This paper uses inter-country panel data obtained during the period 1990-2010 to examine how the occurrence of natural disasters has affected corruption within the public sector. There are a number of new findings from this study. (1) Disaster with the large amount of damage increase corruption not only for developing countries but also for developed countries. (2) The effect of disasters is greater in developed countries than in developing countries. (3) In the developed countries, frequency of occurrence of disaster plays important role on increasing corruption. This suggests that foreseeable disasters increase corruption. In developed countries, people have an incentive to live within disaster-prone areas to seek compensation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Development Research Working Paper Series ; No. 06/2013

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Subject: Corruption ; Institution ; Disasters ; Risk

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Yamamura, Eiji
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD)
• (where): La Paz
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/106341
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