1. The paper examines the escalating commitment in capital budget items from the perspective of rent-seeking behavior.

2. Rent seeking is another channel through which economic inequality adversely affects the efficient functioning of the economy.

3. || Single Market || Tax neutrality || Anti-relocation/ evasion || Potential additional revenue || Discouraging excessive risk taking, rent seeking, myopic behaviour

4. And much of the rest is going on state-driven projects, reinforcing the state's rent-seeking or megalomaniac proclivities.

5. Rent-seeking is a prevalent phenomenon in economic activities, it is existed in complete monopoly, bilateral monopoly and government monopoly market.

6. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been criticized for running a kleptocracy, in which a small number of rent-seeking plutocrats drain the economy.

7. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies Conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.