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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises
Lejarraga, Iza - 2018
and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906342
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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Lakner, Christoph - 2017
In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968216
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Crony Capitalism in Ukraine : Relationship between Political Connectedness and Firms'Performance
Balabushko, Oleksii - 2018
This study combines firm-level data and data on politically exposed people to explore correlation between firms' political connectedness and their economic performance in Ukraine. First, it estimates the share of politically connected firms in Ukraine's economy. Second, the study looks at how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912357
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Pyramid Capitalism : Political Connections, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt
Diwan, Ishac - 2017
This paper uses an original database of 469 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime inEgypt to explore the economic effects of close state-business relations. Previous research has shown that political connections are lucrative. The paper addresses several questions raised by this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971469
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The Return Of"Patrimonial Capitalism" : Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Milanovic, Branko - 2017
The paper provides a detailed review of Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the 21st century." It focuses on the new contributions of the book, and in particular on its unified treatment of economic growth, functional income distribution, and concentration of personal income. It concludes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972971
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Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development : County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province
Fang, Hanming - 2019
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the role of factional competition and local accountability in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China. When the Communist armies took over Fujian from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871367
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How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?
Woolcock, Michael - 2017
conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical … useful and distinctive insights to offer. This paper endeavors to open and sustain a constructive dialogue between history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976368
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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009
This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206912
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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746757
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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2017
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746763