DOES CORRUPTION AFFECT POVERTY IN INDONESIA?

Corruption in Indonesia

Bribes paid by firms in Indonesia arise principally from red tape, in particular licenses, imposed by local government officials. Red tape generates direct revenues (fees) plus indirect revenues in the form of bribes. The expected value of the latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are hampered by insufficient reven...

Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty?

This paper addresses the issue of the impact of aid supply on aid effectiveness. We proceed in two steps. First, we review research works that deal with the problem of governance in donor-recipient relationships and are susceptible of highlighting effects of aggregate aid availability. Second, we provide a conceptual framework that explicitly incorporates a trade-off between considerations of n...

Poverty, corruption and governance in Fiji

Poverty and corruption compromise tropical forest reserves.

We used the global fire detection record provided by the satellite-based Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to determine the number of fires detected inside 823 tropical and subtropical moist forest reserves and for contiguous buffer areas 5, 10, and 15 km wide. The ratio of fire detection densities (detections per square kilometer) inside reserves to their contiguous buffer ...

Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia ( 1993 - 2007 )

Most of the remaining unresolved issues in poverty analysis are related directly or indirectly to the multidimensional nature and dynamics of poverty (Thorbecke, 2005). Analysis on multidimensional poverty has occupied much attention of economists and policymakers, particularly since the writing of (Sen, 1976) and the rising of data availability for relevant research purpose. A significant deve...