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Political institutions, state building, and tax capacity : crossing the tipping point
Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - 2016
this paper, we attempt via four case studies-Spain, China, Colombia, and Nigeria-to illustrate that the improvements in tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716283
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A Survey of Economic Policies and Macroeconomic Performance in Chile and Colombia, 1970-95
Clavijo, Sergio - 1995
the middle and late 1970s and by Colombia almost a decade later in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These reforms have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395870
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Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean : Guyana and Barbados
DaCosta, Michael - 2007
The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400724
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145474
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Post-Covid-19 recovery and resilience : leveraging reforms for growth and inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hong, Gee Hee; Igan, Deniz; Lee, Do - 2021
growth could be lower for longer, with a setback to development. Post-pandemic reforms thus become even more important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518323
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Will the AI revolution cause a great divergence?
Alonso, Cristian; Berg, Andrew; Kothari, Siddharth; … - 2020
This paper considers the implications for developing countries of a new wave of technological change that substitutes pervasively for labor. It makes simple and plausible assumptions: the AI revolution can be modeled as an increase in productivity of a distinct type of capital that substitutes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302048
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Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire
Markevich, Andrei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We document a very large increase in agricultural productivity, peasants’ living standards, and industrial development … dataset of development outcomes and conduct a difference-in-differences analysis relying on cross-sectional variation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165638
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State Capacity, Conflict and Development
Besley, Timothy J.; Persson, Torsten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
? What relations should we expect between resource rents, civil wars and economic development? The paper is organized into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036244
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Further Evidence on the Link between Pre-Colonial Political Centralization and Comparative Economic Development in Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the link between pre-colonial statehood and contemporary regional African development, as reflected in …-country analysis reveals a strong positive correlation between pre-colonial political centralization and contemporary development (and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084301
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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals … a strong association between pre-colonial centralization and contemporary comparative development both across and within … countries. We also document that the strong link between pre-colonial political centralization and regional development -as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084579