Do Local Elites Capture Natural Disaster Reconstruction Funds?
基于斐济农村调查数据，研究地方精英是否在自然灾害重建资金分配中获取更多利益，发现资金分配主要依据灾害损失，精英并未长期获益，但初期供应有限时精英和首领更早获得援助。
Abstract Using original survey data with rich, direct measures of local elites in rural Fiji, this article examines potential elite capture in the allocation of natural disaster reconstruction funds. Allocations of housing construction materials – both receipt and amount received – across villages, clans, and households are strongly targeted on cyclone damage, and local elites do not receive larger benefits over time. As the supply of reconstruction funds is limited during early periods, more severely affected victims do not receive benefits early, while clan leaders and elite clans do receive benefits early within villages.