natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in fiscal capacity. However, political institutions that limit rulers … mainly through institutions that make the tax system accountable and transparent. Thus it is possible to develop both fiscal …

. Viewing institutional configurations as a system of multiple equilibria, the concepts of endogenous institutions and …

institutions and policies - to serve as a teaser. It concludes with some brief reflections on Asia’s future prospects over the next …

effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely … as well as detailed information on the distribution of income within countries. We take advantage of detailed … result highlights the relevance of income shares that go to the middle part of the income distribution and seems especially …

entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this …

connected on both access and cost-of-credit obtained from formal financial institutions. Controlling for unobserved time …

, size and distribution of industry are discussed in light of the laissez fair paradigm. The non-direct interventionist …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … actual distribution and a snowballing effect when moving up the wage distribution. …