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A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal … education, non-farm business assets and road connectivity with reduced collections. Nepal households collected 25% less firewood …
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Using census data from Nepal we examine how the partial derivatives of predicted household welfare vary with parental …
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Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to addresses this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends - in a subtle way - on the details of democratic...
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reform, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other hand …
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China’s reform worked and produced some of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … conventional institutions such as rule of law and secure private property rights is puzzling. To understand how reform works in a … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China’s reform is a serial …
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different models of growth associated with different stages of reform. The speed with which individual countries progress …
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The translation of legal independence into actual independence is primarily determined by the rule of law. Inspired by the economic growth literature, where the role of institutions already is incorporated, we introduce Institutional Quality Indicators that can be used as reasonable proxies for...
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. Members have the same consumption benefit of reform but weak and strong members differ in their cost of exerting reform … efforts. As decisions are taken by unanimity, the reform level is determined by the weakest member. However, strong members … members into the Union) can have different effects on deepening (more reform effort). When a new member is stronger than the …
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banks in 26 former socialist economies (FSEs). The indices reveal that central bank reform in the FSE during the 1990s has …
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We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … studies and find that the macroeconomic effects of reform (when measured objectively) tend to be larger and more precisely …
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