Social impacts of corruption upon community resilience and poverty
Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Social impacts of corruption upon community resilience and poverty | |
| Creator | Lewis, James | |
| Description | Corruption at all levels of all societies is a behavioural consequence of power and greed. With no rulebook, corruption is covert, opportunistic, repetitive and powerful, reliant upon dominance, fear and unspoken codes: a significant component of the ‘quiet violence’. Descriptions of financial corruption in China, Italy and Africa lead into a discussion of ‘grand’, ‘political’ and ‘petty’ corruption. Social consequences are given emphasis but elude analysis; those in Bangladesh and the Philippines are considered against prerequisites for resilience. People most dependent upon self-reliance are most prone to its erosion by exploitation, ubiquitous impediments to prerequisites of resilience – latent abilities to ‘accommodate and recover’ and to ‘change in order to survive’. Rarely spoken of to those it does not dominate, for long-term effectiveness, sustainability and reliability, eradication of corrupt practices should be prerequisite to initiatives for climate change, poverty reduction, disaster risk reduction and resilience. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2017-05-26 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/jamba.v9i1.391 | |
| Source | Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Vol 9, No 1 (2017); 8 pages 2072-845X 1996-1421 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/391/669
https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/391/671
https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/391/668
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