TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Social impacts of corruption upon community resilience and poverty
JO  - Jàmbá
A1  - Lewis, James
SP  - e391
EP  - e391
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
N2  - Corruption 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2072-845X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v9i1.391
ID  - ref1
ER  -