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This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the potential effects of other geographic, economic and cultural initial conditions. Analysis of a panel of countries from 1996 to 2010 indicates...
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stability, and conflict risk; and third, to assess how prospective political transitions have implications for the World Bank …
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toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper …
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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …
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The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …
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economic reforms. The authors test this hypothesis using data on micro-economic reforms from the World Bank's Doing Business … probability of reform in the sample is 57.1 percent. "--World Bank web site …
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