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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions trumps' everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, measures of geography have at best weak direct effects …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

Mc Millan, Margaret - 2017

Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246181

Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reductions in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455303

The Future of Economic Convergence

Rodrik, Dani - 2011

The question addressed in this paper is whether the gap in performance between the developed and developing worlds can continue, and in particular, whether developing nations can sustain the rapid growth they have experienced of late. The good news is that growth in the developing world should...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461258

TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - 1997

The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has overlooked a fundamental indeterminacy in measurement. As a result, we cannot rule out the possibility that East Asia has in fact experienced a tremendous amount of technological...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472910

Institutions for High-Quality Growth : What They are and How to Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - 2000

This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can … identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that … institutions. A range of evidence indicates that participatory democracies enable higher-quality growth …

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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence

Rodriguez, Francisco - 1999

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...

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Growth Accelerations

Hausmann, Ricardo - 2004

Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...

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Where Did All The Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict, and Growth Collapses

Rodrik, Dani - 1998

shocks on the one hand, and the domestic institutions of conflict-management on the other. Econometric evidence provides … societies (as measured by indicators of inequality, ethnic fragmentation, and the like) and with weak institutions of conflict … management (proxied by indicators of the quality of governmental institutions, rule of law, democratic rights, and social safety …

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Distributive Politics and Economic Growth

Alesina, Alberto - 1991

This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475348