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New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development programmes … of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially public … institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this major …
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In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...
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be against democracy. Then, in order to consolidate the democratic process, state institutions must be reinforced to be … explain the difficulty to implement democracy and market economy relies on the idea that people, especially the poor, have a … education. But, on the contrary, the poor are strongly in favour of democracy as the rest of the population. This finding …
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Do good institutions foster trade? Many trade agreements, and notably those of the European Union, introduce … democracy and the fight against corruption on trade. We use a gravity model inspired and adapted from Anderson and van Wincoop … bilateral trade, before regressing the country fixed-effects to test for the consequences of democracy and the fight against …
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, governance, and social and political participation). To take up this challenge, modules on Governance, Democracy and Multiple …Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions … on governance; the perception of decentralisation policies at local level; the level and vitality of social and political …
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This paper presents a new methodology aimed at building institutional indicators. Up to now, all the available indicators have relied on an analysis of the supply of legal protection. Conversely we propose here a methodology based on the analysis of the demand for legal protection, as it is...
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theory of games really takes into accounts the institutions in its formal approach of the social activities, but rather to … fruitful treatment of the institutions. A third part suggests an alternative approach of the institutions. Thanks to a new … codes emerge to be considered as foundations for the institutions. …
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The process of development is linked to the rise of an integrated and competitive economy and polity that allow a maximal division of labor and innovation. This process relies on two intertwined dynamics. First, in the establishment of the rule of law, legal instruments are appropriated by those...
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