This paper uses panel data from the 16 main states in India during the period 1967- 1999 to study the effects of having … higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators …

examines three phases of development since the foundation of the People’s Republic: the central planning era (1949 –1978); the … social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … is subservient to the economic strategy are considered. The alternative of a model of social development based on the …

. First, we investigate how environmental lobby groups affect the determination of environmental policy in rich and developing … empirical findings suggest that environmental lobby groups tend to positively affect the stringency of environmental policy …. Moreover, political competition tends to raise policy stringency, in particular where citizens’ participation in the democratic …

, the legal implications of persona rights law are translated into more conceptual terms. As a normative framework, persona … – particularly in spaces for user-generated content (UGC) – and in suggesting how policy might be written to account for user rights …

lending. Optimism leads to the opposite conclusion, at least if it is legitimate to use fiscal policy to counteract systematic …

experience more frequent and more severe aggregate shocks (e.g. from macroeconomic policy); and (iv) poor countries … of development. We document the following regularities. First, as countries develop, their productive structure moves … from more volatile to less volatile sectors. Second, the level of specialization declines with development at early stages …

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial … institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … development stages of an economy. At higher development stages a financing regime with ex post selection capacity is more …