between marketization and democracy. The first is more direct, stemming from the fact of both systems sharing certain values … and attitudes in common. But there is also a second more indirect chain from marketization to democracy, which is … (iii) from material development to social welfare and democracy. We examine each of these sub-links in detail with a view …

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

on panel data from India. We show that public food distribution and calamity relief expenditure are greater, controlling …

effects. They are also supported by evidence from recent country cases. Though the reemergence of multiparty democracy in …

This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty … close study over a period of six decades. Sample survey data indicate that the non-farm sector in rural India has grown … in India as both particularly closely linked to rural non-farm development and recording particularly high rates of urban …