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Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …
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poor growth in sub-Saharan Africa during post-independence. The current article employs the unique data and insights …) the role of institutions in mediating this impact, with special attention accorded the efficacy of the restraint on the …
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Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …, reflect their findings in light of recent development models, debates and currents in post-2010 literature. We then re … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …
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theoretical mechanisms that relate property rights to economic development. Lack of protection of property rights can result in …
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institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … year while indirectly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 5.7% per year. Much of the development gap between areas …
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In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of ethnic diversity on economic development. Ethnically polarized … providing lower levels of social capital. Initial conditions are important determinants of adverse development outcomes. The …
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of ethnic diversity on economic development. Ethnically polarized … providing lower levels of social capital. Initial conditions are important determinants of adverse development outcomes. The …
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This study contributes to the scholarly literature on the achievement of sustainable development in light of the UN … green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is novel from both the conceptual and empirical perspectives. With regard to …
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