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The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … why the Acemoglu & Johnson (2005) justification provided for the measurement of property rights institutions (PRI) is …
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Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if having a woman at the helm of country's decision making processes leads to better indicators on women conditions. Using time series observations for the period 2000-2011, we test the...
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Edited by Augustin K. Fosu Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 2015, pp. 393 (Hardcover). Reviewed by Simplice A. Asongu African Governance and Development Institute P.O. Box 8413, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
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Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by … institutions to promote investment on the one hand and fighting financial allocation inefficiency by mitigating surplus liquidity … issues on the other hand. Originality/value - The paper extends the debate on the substitution of finance and institutions in …
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The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … why the Acemoglu & Johnson (2005) justification provided for the measurement of property rights institutions (PRI) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409784
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Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if having a woman at the helm of country's decision making processes leads to better indicators on women conditions. Using time series observations for the period 2000-2011, we test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408493
Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …
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This study assesses the relationship between tribalism (the tribalism index) and government effectiveness (per the World Bank) in 65 countries using cross-sectional data averages from 2000-2010. This study finds that countries with high-tribal populations generally enjoy bad governance in terms...
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We explore a newly available dataset on quality of growth to investigate the effect of institutions on growth quality … in 93 developing countries for the period 1990 to 2011. Quality of institutions is measured in term of political risk … established. First, institutions are positively related to the quality of growth. Second, institutions have significantly …
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