In fact, the moratorium is just such an opportunity that will increase
rent-seeking and expose the KFS to myriad litigation.
Assessing how this shift from bureaucratic to local control affected
rent-seeking in the form of water theft along a channel, the study notes that in such quota-based systems, users have a strong temptation to bribe local officials to look the other way as they use various means to illicitly enhance their water entitlement.
As an alternative to the current positions on the right and left, Lindsey and Teles offer what they call a "liberaltarian" approach to public policy that focuses on curbing
rent-seeking, limiting government in some ways and strengthening it in others.
The government needs to protect our industry and at the same time protect the consumers against
rent-seeking.
Past experience has taught us that political turf battles and creating
rent-seeking opportunities for private-sector allies will take precedence over solving Karachi's problems.
Let's discuss
rent-seeking, as it relates to local marijuana dispensaries.
The project, the sources said, will create an overall environment of transparency, accountability and a sense of belonging for the landowners, the sources said and added that the project will also bring down
rent-seeking and mal-practice.
He coedited with James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock the first scholarly volume in that area of research, Toward a Theory of the
Rent-Seeking Society (Buchanan, Tollison, and Tullock 1980).
The experience from overseas and here shows that protection only leads to inertia, lack of regulation and
rent-seeking.
In contrast, under the
rent-seeking scenario, progressive taxes on the top are actually efficient because they reduce wasteful activities from top earners aimed at increasing their own pay at the expense of others.
Somalia's fragility has been driven by several factors that include protracted conflict, sporadic violence and insurgency, political uncertainty due to inter-clan tensions and
rent-seeking, inadequate human and institutional capacity, and nascent public financial governance.
the "Tullock paradox"), although some of this differential may be explained by less visible and hard to measure in-kind
rent-seeking activities.
