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Two Views on Institutional Development: The Grand Transition vs the Primacy of Institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2007

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 …

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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth in a Two Country World

Gaitan, Beatriz; Roe, Terry L. - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2005

We investigate the Ramsey-like dynamics of nonrenewable resource abundance on economic growth and welfare in a two country world. One country is endowed with a non-renewable- resource Otherwise, countries are identical. The one country result of Rodríguez and Sachs (1999) that the initial stock...

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Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu

Hansson, Gustav; Olsson, Ola - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2006

The political and economic impact of country size has been a frequently discussed issue in social science. In accordance with the general hypothesis of Montesquieu, this paper demonstrates that there is a robust negative relationship between the size of country territory and a measure of the...

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Resource curse or not: A question of appropriability

Boschini, Anne D.; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2006

This paper shows that whether natural resources are good or bad for a country’s development crucially depends on the …

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Micro-credit, risk coping and incidence of rural-to-urban migration

Ahsan, Quamrul - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2005

The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...

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Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in the Philippines

Ang, Alvin P. - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2007

economic growth and development. In particular, this paper focuses on how such remittances have been able to spur development …) tracing the contribution of remittances to countryside development, and (d) relationship between worker remittances and … ways where these resources can be harnessed into funding development needs of the country. …

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Unbundling the Resource Curse

Boschini, Anne D.; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2008

resource measures and conclude that some resources certainly seem to influence institutional development, but that this is …

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The Effect of Economic Reform and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities

Alder, Simon; Shao, Lin; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2012

We use the establishment of Special Economic Zones in China to estimate the effect of economic reforms on GDP. A panel of 270 Chinese cities from 1988 to 2010 allows us to exploit the variation in the establishment of zones across time and space. The results from our baseline...

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Predation, Labor Share and Development

Bethencourt, Carlos; Perera-Tallo, Fernando - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2011

This paper proposes a new mechanism based on the allocation of labor to help understand why differences among countries have remained stable. We formulate a neoclassical growth model in which agents devote time either to produce or to commit predation. Labor share is the key variable which...

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Some Empirics of Socio-Economic Transitions. Estimating the Common Pattern

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2012

The agricultural transition, the demographic transition and the democratic transition explain the development paths of … approaches for identifying causality in development. …

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