Bolt, Jutta; Bezemer, Dirk - In: Journal of Development Studies 45 (2009) 1, pp. 24-54
Long-term growth in developing countries has been explained in four frameworks: 'extractive colonial institutions' (Acemoglu et al., 2001), 'colonial legal origin' (La Porta et al., 2004), 'geography' (Gallup et al., 1998) and 'colonial human capital' (Glaeser et al., 2004). In this paper we...
