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Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
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The paper studies the relations between types of institutions on different components of human development. A role of … aggregate demand in determining the material components of human development is assumed. We thus divide institutions into those … in its three traditional components (economic development, health, knowledge). Both human development and institutions …
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The trade and capital flows across the national borders of developing countries have recently accelerated and produced the conditions for faster transmission of knowledge. While the economic literature has mainly focused on how international technology transfer affects standard economic...
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associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
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from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
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development. In this context institutions and institutional policies are crucial for a development process. In fact, for better … distribution and access to resources as well as for social cohesion, well-designed institutions are needed. …
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We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
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