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The primacy of institutions reconsidered: The effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Carstensen, Kai; Gundlach, Erich - 2005
institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical … from our estimates that implementing good institutions appears to be necessary but not sufficient to generate a persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416456
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The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: The Effects of Malaria Prevalence in the Empirics of Development
Gundlach, Erich - 2004
I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in … specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are … difficult to obtain due to a lack of independent instrumental variables. Conditional on a restricted effect of institutions, my …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265632
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - 2007
financial crises to improve their institutions and grow up to financial stability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295241
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-12, pp. 1-17
financial crises to improve their institutions and grow up to financial stability. …
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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005
Grawe, Roger - 2013
The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336024
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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa
Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014
Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....
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Origins and Implications of Family Structure across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
. Implications for public policy suggest that institutions need to be strengthened before entrepreneurial resource can be deployed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685