contributes to revisiting questions of economic performance, social capital and institutions with a clearly better and updated … overarching definitions of social capital, along with institutions, inequality, and education are consistently significant …

This article analyses through a rent seeking model, the relationship between institutions' quality and natural … resources. Depending on the institutions quality, each country has a specific structural capacity to stand natural resources … resources begin to have a negative impact on institutions. As the stock of natural resources increases, this improves the …

that, while they have fostered the PEI of the local communities, the development projects of the oil companies had a rather … development policy should focus. …

issues associated with other datasets on changes in economic institutions. The results provide a robust support for the claim …

economic development. An empirical test of the model is performed for different categories of countries using the World Values …

differentiated effect of this type of PMR depending on whether countries are technological leaders or laggards in a given industry …