Corruption in the Agriculture Sector – Micro Level Evidence from Bangladesh

Assessing the effect of climate change and financial development on agricultural production in ASEAN-4: the role of renewable energy, institutional quality, and human capital as moderators

“…Agriculture provides raw materials to the manufacturing sector and ensures food security and hence it provides a foundation for the economy and hence corruption has serious implications for the agricultural sector (Anik and Bauer, 2017). This is especially held true for the developing countries since majority of the people live in rural areas and thus voiceless because of the resource constraints (Anik and Bauer, 2017). Our result is consistent with Drebee and Abdul-Razak ( 2020), who found that corruption is a major determinant of agricultural sector in Iran.…”

“…The result from CS-ARDL implies that if quality of institutions is improved by 1%, it will result in higher agricultural production by 0.08% and 0.095% in short run and long run. Agriculture provides raw materials to the manufacturing sector and ensures food security and hence it provides a foundation for the economy and hence corruption has serious implications for the agricultural sector (Anik and Bauer, 2017). This is especially held true for the developing countries since majority of the people live in rural areas and thus voiceless because of the resource constraints (Anik and Bauer, 2017).…”

“…The quality of institutions can be measured by the prevalence of corrupt practices. The farmers are exposed to various types of corruption particularly on getting subsidies on irrigation, fertilizer market, agriculture pricing, seed market, storage, and transportation, (Anik and Bauer, 2017). Quah (1982) noted that bureaucratic corruption is one of the most serious and embarrassing obstacles to the national development efforts of ASEAN countries.…”

The effects of environmental degradation on agriculture: Evidence from European countries

“…The positive impact of political stability on agricultural production is small, although statistically significant. Anik and Bauer (2017) point out that corruption, associated with the lack of institutional quality, harms the maximisation of the social welfare of farmers. In this model, most of the covariates have a positive and statistically significant effect on vegetable production.…”

“…In this connection, corruption is more encouraged in a controlled input market than in an open market, because in this case, bribe-paying farmers can acquire more inputs and operate more efficiently. Similarly, Anik & Bauer (2017) examined the impact of corruption in the agriculture sector of Bangladesh. The authors concentrated on the micro-level of the fertiliser market, where the sellers influence fertiliser price to make more profit.…”