Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Rent seeking is defined as any practice in which an entity aims to increase its wealth without making any contribution to the ...

RENT-SEEKING has been around for a very long time. Breaking it is not going to be easy unless the government has a strong political will to work out effective regulations to stem this unhealthy ...

“The rent-seeking system manipulates the social and political system to gain an unfair advantage over others while not adding any value,” said Akhbar, who is also a former Anti-Corruption ...

This payout serves as a textbook example of “rent-seeking” — the economic term for how corporations and individuals use the public purse to extract profits for themselves without creating ...

Rent-seeking causes economic stagnation, harms the poor while benefiting the rich and connected, contributes to societal distrust and corruption, reduces the incentive for innovation, and wastes ...

After Donald Trump’s first term as president, Anne Krueger, an economist who coined the term “rent-seeking” 50 years ago, wrote that “Crony capitalism has taken root, and will ...

Objecting to rent-seeking is not objecting to rents. If you inherit a posh property, then you should charge those who want to rent it what the market will bear. But rent-seeking produces its own ...

Rent-seeking refers to individuals or organisations seeking economic benefits without creating any real value in the economy. This mindset stems from the flawed definition of success in our society.

Given the quota had been introduced to allow children of NRIs to seek higher education in India, the expanded eligibility amounted to a rent-seeking tool for the educational establishment — fees ...