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Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change, which implies at least a little and possibly a lot of institutional instability. We investigate the...
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institutions on development, the costs of fractionalization, and research on the policies of social inclusion around the world. …
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country like Tunisia. It argues that an ELR-led economic development policy is vastly superior to the traditional import … substitution industrialization (ISI), export-led, and FDI-led development models, all of which Tunisia has adopted without much …
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measures to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A MDGs status report on Kenya indicates that progress has been made …
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income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact … control group, I develop an empirical strategy that disentangles the partial effects of institutions and of endowments on … mix up the effect of the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of access to trade and of …
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resource measure, using alternative measures of both resources and institutions, and by studying different time periods. While … institutions are good enough. …
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-optimistic in face of the slowdown of commodity prices and problems of industrialisation. But good development is not necessarily …
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This paper describes private actors' involvement in Colombia's policymaking process. While more transparent and formal channels are used to discuss horizontal policies, they are also less effective. The adoption of targeted policies, however, follows a faster track and depends more on political...
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debt-led regime until the taper tantrum in 2013. Since then, a development towards a more export-led regime is observable …
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. This paper provides this background context for the country of South Africa. The South African case illustrates the … ideological and political space for South Africa to depart from neoliberal orthodoxy in ways that seemed unlikely before the …
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