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The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...
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, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … response should be comprehensively total: institutions that unite, infrastructure that connects, interventions that target …
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of knowledge growth, reuse, and sharing, redundant economies lead to increasing returns, which are crucial for economic …
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By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their different trajectories. In particular, I examined the delineation of property rights, alienation of land, rent and tax, inheritance and accumulation of land. Feudal England was a...
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The paper examines how political institutions in comparison to legal, social and economic institutions fare with …
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others, about changes in well-being over time, trust in various institutions, sources of conflicts at the local level, and … has little trust in national institutions such as the army, the police, the judicial system, and the central government …
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development, and a theory that integrates economic, political and cultural aspects that lie behind these institutions, is making …The new paradigm in the field of International Cooperation is that institutions are the fundamental cause of long …-run economic development. However, the lack of both a clear consensus on which are the specific institutions that promote …
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-regulated labour market into a quite more flexible one. According to the theory, the deregulation is expected to increase the …
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, advances in structural policies, and better government institutions have contributed to the reduction in inflation rates in the …
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both political-economic institutions as well as the primarily political institution of democratic development. Using both … weakly positive relationship. Political economic institutions, however, remain positive and significant determinants of …
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