Swanson, Timothy; Sarr, Mare - Center for International Environmental Studies, The … - 2012
the productivity of the country while facing the risk of being ousted, or looting the country’s riches by liquefying the … external lending, investment and debt. We then argue that this looting phenomenon provides an explanation for the generation of …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the …