{"id":8583,"date":"2013-03-25T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2013-03-24T10:19:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T14:19:23","slug":"african-institutions-and-the-endangered-species-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/8583","title":{"rendered":"African Institutions and the Endangered Species Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a title=\"Lion Hunting in Tanzania: Getting Away with Murder?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/commentaries\/199616601.html\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a> I published in the <em>Star Tribune<\/em> (Minneapolis&#8211;St. Paul) this past weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not only is Tanzania a relatively corrupt country, but researchers also note extensive corruption in the hunting sector. It is for that reason that Tanzania\u2019s minister for natural resources and tourism issued a stern warning to the Tanzania Safari Outfitters Association at a meeting in Dar es Salaam last fall, noting that corruption usually began with wealthy hunters bribing officials so that they would turn a blind eye to illegal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of lobbying against placing the African lion on the endangered species list, Tanzania should seek to reform its institutions. Not only would this help protect the country\u2019s big-game reserves, it is also a crucial step toward the sustainable development of the Tanzanian economy. A persistent finding in development economics is that dysfunctional institutions, of which corruption is a symptom, are an important cause of underdevelopment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an op-ed I published in the Star Tribune (Minneapolis&#8211;St. Paul) this past weekend: Not only is Tanzania a relatively corrupt country, but researchers also&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/8583\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">African Institutions and the Endangered Species Act<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,30,16,55,21,12,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-commentary","category-development","category-economics","category-environment","category-policy","category-self-promotion","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2er","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}