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eprints-26541
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| recordtype |
eprints
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| institution |
SOAS, University of London
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| collection |
SOAS Research Online
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| topic |
JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia)
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| description |
High levels of faith and finance are being invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in 2007, corruption has been viewed as a potential impediment to the achievement of REDD+ goals, partly motivating ‘safeguards’ rolled out as part of national REDD+ readiness activities. We compare corruption mitigation measures adopted as part of REDD+ safeguards, drawing on qualitative case evidence from three Southeast Asian countries that have recently piloted the scheme: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. We find that while REDD+ safeguards adopt a conventional principal-agent approach to tackling corruption in the schemes, our case evidence confirms our theoretical expectation that REDD+ corruption risks are perceived to arise not only from principal-agent type problems: they are also linked to embedded pro-corruption social norms. This implies that REDD+ safeguards are likely to be at best partially effective against corruption, and at worst will not mitigate corruption at all.
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| format |
Journal Article
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| author |
Williams, Aled
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| author_facet |
Williams, Aled
Dupuy, Kendra
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| authorStr |
Williams, Aled
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| author_letter |
Williams, Aled
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| author2 |
Dupuy, Kendra
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| author2Str |
Dupuy, Kendra
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| title |
Will REDD+ safeguards mitigate corruption? Qualitative evidence from Southeast Asia
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| publisher |
Taylor and Francis
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| publishDate |
2018
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| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26541/
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