Countries where social and political institutions stimulate interpersonal trust, civic cooperation, and social …

’ income levels and exchange rate valuation, as well as development indicators such as financial depth and school enrollment …

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income … levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions … ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for institutions, geography have at best weak direct effects on incomes, although it …

The quality of institutions-meaning the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, shareholder protection, and …

, and inclusive political institutions to inform and monitor policymaking …

Would better state institutions increase tax collection, or would higher tax collection help improve state institutions …, the paper finds that tax capacity and state institutions cause and reinforce each other for a wide range of country groups …. The bi-directional causality results suggest that developing tax capacity and building state institutions need to go hand …

This paper examines the origins and use of the concept of Gross National Happiness (or subjective well-being) in the … national surveys of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan, the concept has been used to guide public policymaking for the country … undertake more frequent Gross National Happiness surveys and evaluations, to better build evidence for comovement of well …