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dc.contributor.authorLewis, James
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-02T08:43:46Z
dc.date.available2017-08-02T08:43:46Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationLewis, J. 2017. Social impacts of corruption upon community resilience and poverty. Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 9(1):1- 8 [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/8847]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1998-1421
dc.identifier.issn2072-845X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/25294
dc.description.abstractCorruption 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.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v9i1.391
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSIS Publishingen_US
dc.titleSocial impacts of corruption upon community resilience and povertyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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