Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780521791670 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str.

Ann Arbor) Michael L. Ross (University of Michigan

Opis

In this book, Michael L. Ross explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states. Using case studies of timber booms in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, he shows that these institutions often break down when states receive positive trade shocks--unanticipated windfalls. Drawing on the theory of rent-seeking, he suggests that these institutions succumb to a problem he calls "rent-seizing"--the predatory behavior of politicians who seek to supply rent to others, and who purposefully dismantle institutions that restrain them.

Recenzje

'This book offers a clear understanding of how natural-resource management in developing countries cannot be managed solely on a political basis, but must involve responsible and ethical foresters.' The Journal of Asian Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction: three puzzles; 2. The problem of resource booms; 3. Explaining institutional breakdown; 4. The Philippines: the legal slaughter of the forests; 5. Sabah, Malaysia: a new state of affairs; 6. Sarawak, Malaysia: an almost uncontrollable instinct; 7. Indonesia: putting the forests to 'better use'; 8. Conclusion: rent seeking and rent-seizing.