concentration in the course of economic development. The model includes centrifugal forces, such as home market effects and access …. Economic development increases the size of the industrial sector in terms of employment relative to the size of the …, transport costs, and the level of economic development. These parameters lead to an inverted U-curve pattern of industry …

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol constitutes a major tool in the fight against climate …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional … a massive trans-border threat while creating high obstacles to sustainable and prospective development, ultimately …

institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic …

public goods and may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant remittances and on philanthropy in …

: it increases the welfare of this group and also contributes to financial development, which is a driver of growth …

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …