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Civic Capital as the Missing Link
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
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Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History : A Quantitative Exploration
Buera, Francisco J. - 2010
We quantify the role of financial frictions and the initial misallocation of resources in explaining development dynamics. Following a reform that triggers efficient reallocation of resources, our model economy with financial frictions converges slowly to the new steady state--it takes twice as...
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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …
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China and India : Reforms and the Response
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different …Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India for most of these indicators. For instance, China … has a higher growth rate of per capita income, XGS and GFCF as also a higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India …
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Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development
Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
remain small. We estimate the parameters of the model using firm-level data for India and the United States. We study the …
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
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Corporate Governance, Business Group Governance and Economic Development Traps
Dau, Luis - 2020
Every firm in a developed economy relies on the mere existence of countless other firms to keep prices competitive up and down all supply chains. Without this network externality, no firm forms; and without many firms, no network forms; locking in a low-income trap. Business group governance...
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British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India
Kapur, Shilpi - 2006
We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India. In some regions, the …
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter - 2005
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....
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