Corruption, food subsidies, and opacity: Evidence from the Philippines

We argue that subsidized food distribution systems that fail to publicize how much food has been allocated to each local market will experience high rates of theft on the margin as they are expanded. We provide the first comparable cross-section of estimates of subsidized food theft. As predicted, in regions of the Philippines that were allocated more subsidized rice to distribute, a larger percentage of the rice went missing.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Mehta, Aashish ; Jha, Shikha
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 117.2012, 3, p. 708-711
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Pilferage \| Transfer program \| Food subsidy \| Transparency \| Opacity

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	H30 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents. General ; H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods ; H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies ; D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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