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Robinson, James A. - 2010

Particular sets of institutions, once they become established in a society, have a strong tendency to persist. In this paper I argue that understanding how elites form and reproduce is key to understanding the persistence of institutions over time. I illustrate this idea with a simple political...

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Reversal of the Kuznets curve : study on the inequality-development relation using top income shares data

Tuominen, Elina - 2015

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The top income shares data are of high quality and cover about a century for some countries and thus provide an interesting opportunity to study slow development processes. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496108

Secession and social polarization : evidence from Catalonia

Balcells, Laia; Fernández Albertos, José; Kuo, Alexander - 2021

Does secessionism lead to social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to … polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that …. However, polarization does not necessarily lead to violence. We explore the case of Catalonia, a region that experienced a …

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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017

We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...

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Growth of African economies : productivity, policy syndromes, and the importance of institutions

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2013

Recent evidence from an exhaustive political economy study of growth of African economies- the growth project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) suggests that 'policy syndromes' have substantially contributed to the generally poor growth in sub-Saharan Africa during...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690745

Does aid availability affect effectiveness in reducing poverty?

Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2012

This paper addresses the issue of the impact of aid supply on aid effectiveness. We proceed in two steps. First, we review research works that deal with the problem of governance in donor-recipient relationships and are susceptible of highlighting effects of aggregate aid availability. Second,...

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Does foreign aid promote democracy? : aid, democracy, and instability from trade

Kangoye, Thierry - 2011

This study revisits the effect of aid on the quality of institutions and examines the effects of a major source of instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings which explain the role of aid in mitigating the adverse...

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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?

Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019

Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...

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An empirical analysis of state fragility and growth : the impact of state ineffectiveness and political violence

Ferreira, Ines A. - 2018

The role of the state in promoting development is well established in the institutional economics literature. Yet, in recent decades the attention has been turned to the opposite side of the spectrum. Facing high levels of poverty and showing a slower progress in achieving development outcomes,...

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Understanding the boom : country study : Tanzania

Henstridge, Mark - 2018

There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...

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