Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as …

that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the rational destruction of surplus. We assume that the … conflict by aggressively discriminating and that this behavior is consistent with existing empirical evidence. …

This survey is an overview on the literature that investigates the relationship between the institutions and … the theoretical analysis of the relationship between the economic development and the role of institutions. As it is clear … the institutions can be evaluated. This problem is related to the necessity to close off in the right way the weight and …

successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …

Guinea-Bissau endured a major conflict in 1998 and has suffered from persistent political instability since … others, about changes in well-being over time, trust in various institutions, sources of conflicts at the local level, and … result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …