This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development and through which mechanism …

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms …-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that Islam and Islamic institutions …

expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across …

Asia. Public spending and performance patterns differ hugely across countries. Asian “tigers” and some advanced countries …