Corruption, food subsidies, and opacity: Evidence from the Philippines
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چکیده
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. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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