Smallholder farmers' investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on the security of land … tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features of rural land markets in Ghana …

, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … among the determinants to the variance in TFP growth is market efficiency for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …

A growing body of work has shown that the quality of national institutions that enforce written contracts plays an … margin than the extensive margin of exporting. In addition, better contracting institutions increase the probability of … developing countries that seek to boost export growth but many of which suffer from poor contracting institutions …

adoption of two different types of participatory governance institutions influences municipal tax collection in Brazil …. Municipalities that voluntarily adopt participatory institutions collect significantly higher levels of taxes than similar … municipalities without these institutions. The paper provides evidence that moves scholarship on tax compliance beyond enforcement …

To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …

promote countercyclical fiscal policy and should be combined with strong institutions. Moreover, fiscal rules seem to limit …

disparate actions of political parties and sector institutions. Ambitious targets for electricity access, liberalization, and …