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Life Sciences
Investigators at George Mason University release new data on life sciences
January 17th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Could bad weather be responsible for U. S. corruption' Natural disasters create resource windfalls in the states they strike by triggering federally provided natural-disaster relief. By increasing the benefit of fraudulent appropriation and creating new opportunities for such theft, disaster-relief windfalls may also increase corruption." "We investigate this hypothesis by exploring the effect of disaster relief provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA) on public corruption. The results support our hypothesis. Each additional $100 per capita in FEMA relief increases the average state's corruption by nearly...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-17)
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