Should Fighting Corruption Always Be One of the Main Pre-Requisites for Economic Help?

Authors

Sean R. Aguilar, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

11-2020

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-20-115

Published in International Mathematical Forum, 2020, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 407--415.

Abstract

In general, corruption is bad. In many cases, it makes sense to make fighting corruption one of the main pre-requisites for getting financial help: we do not want this money to line the pockets of corrupted officials, we want to help the people. In this paper, we argue, however, that in some cases -- of over-regulated and/or oppressive regimes -- too much emphasis on fighting corruption may be counter-productive: instead of helping people, it may hurt them.