State Capture

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Example in practice

 

Since the 1990s, multinational corporations have pressured and bribed key politicians in the Solomon Islands to create a favourable operating environment for logging and to weaken national-level timbermanagement, successfully gaining advantages such as decreasing export taxes, postponing thelogging export ban and preventing moves to strengthen government oversight of foreign-controlled

operations.71

 

Relevant links

—— Global Witness

http://www.globalwitness.org/

 

—— World Bank: Development Outreach - State Capture: Who Represents the Poor?

http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/winter01/article.asp?id=100

 

—— World Bank: State Capture and Influence

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/EXTWBIGOVANTCOR/0,,contentMDK:20713499~menuPK:1976979~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:1740530,00.html

 

70 Hellman and D. Kaufmann, ‘Confronting the Challenge of State Capture in Transition Economies’, Finance & Development, vol. 38, no. 3

(2001).

 

D. Kaufmann, F. Recanatini, S. Biletsky, ‘Assessing Governance: Diagnostic Tools and Applied Methods for CapacityBuilding and Action Learning’ (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2002).

U4 Corruption Glossary http://www.u4.no/document/glossary.cfm.

 

United Nations Development Programme, Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives: Accelerating Human Development in the Asia and the Pacific (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2008).

USAID, TATWEER Anti-Corruption Glossary http://www.tatweer-iraq.com/content/resources/detail/812.

 

71 Peter Dauvergne, ‘WeakStates and the Environment in Indonesia and the Solomon Islands’, Resource Management in Asia Pacific Working Paper No. 10. http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/rmap/Wpapers/rmap_wp10.pdf.