African Studies Program Seminar
Highway Robbery: The Economics of Extortion in West African Trucking
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Time
12 p.m.
Location
206 Ingraham Hall
Description
Jeremy Foltz, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, seeks to analyze the process of petty corruption along the major trade routes of West Africa. The work analyzes data from 1,200 truck trips on three key routes in West Africa: Bamako-Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou to Tema, Ghana and Lome, Togo. Those truck trips represent 44,000 times trucks were stopped and more than 40,000 bribes paid and identify a number of places with high levels of corruption.
Cost
Free
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