Do Natural Resources Breed Corruption? Evidence from China

摘要：

　　Rampant corruption is often observed in resource-rich countries, especially developing countries with weak political institutions.Do natural resources breed corruption? And if so, how? This study addresses these questions by investigating the impacts of resource abundance on the occurrence of corruption in China.By examining resource-related corruption cases in China, it identifies several channel sthrough which resources give rise to corruption.Moreover, through a cross-regional and longitudinal data analysis of eorruption rates in Chinese provinces, it finds that the abundance of and dependence on mineral resources do increase the propensity for corruption by local officials.

关键词： China corruption curse of natural resources panel data analysis

作者: ZHAN Jing

作者单位: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 1st Chinese Conference on Comparative Political Economy (第一届比较政治经济学国际学术会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 168-185

在线出版日期: 2013-09-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）