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two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …
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two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273104
This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
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democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …
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. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …
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. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278546
instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings …, aggregate aid flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms-of-trade instability on the quality of democracy. An empirical …
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In the study 'Do elites benefit from democracy and foreign aid in developing countries' (Journal of Development …
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of GDP growth. The paper finally suggests a positive correlation between democracy and economic development. …
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This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. Applying panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for cross-sectional dependence problems in the data,...
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