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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cameroon
Fondja Wandji, Yris D. - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
The aim of this paper is to study the nature of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Cameroon through a three-step approach: (i) study the stationarity of the chronic, (ii) test of causality between variables, and (iii) estimate the appropriate model. The study...
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2014
measured by standard democracy indices). The results are robust to a wide range of specifications and estimation methods …
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The stage of development among former communist economies: Social capital, the middle class and democracy
Tridico, Pasquale - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 44 (2013) C, pp. 47-58
The aim of this paper is to trace, comparatively, the path of both development and democracy among Former Soviet … Republics (FSRs) and Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Democracy is defined using the concept of Dahl (1971) who … refers to “contestation” as the essential feature of democracy. Development is identified with the general progress of human …
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NATURAL RESOURCE ABUNDANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH REVISITED
Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2001
Data on energy and mineral reserves suggest that natural resource abundance has not been a significant structural determinant of economic growth between 1970 and 1989. The story behind the effect of natural resources on economic growth is a complex one that typical growth regressions do not...
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Trust as the missing root of institutions, education, and development
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Bjørnskov, Christian - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2012
In the paper, we argue that trust is the missing link relating education, institutions, and economic development. We argue that increased trust both increases education and improves legal and bureaucratic institutions, which in turn spurs economic development. We substantiate this intuition with...
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Declining Predation during Development: a Feedback Process
Bethencourt, Carlos; Perera-Tallo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Empirical evidence suggests that poorer countries have larger portions of predation. We formulate a neoclassical growth model in which agents devote time either to produce or predate. When the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital is lower than one, the labor share rises with...
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
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Human capital and regional development
Gennaioli, Nicola; Laporta, Rafael; López-de-Silanes, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world’s surface and 97 percent of its GDP. We combine the cross-regional analysis of geographic, institutional, cultural, and...
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Educational Content, Educational Institutions and Economic Development: Lessons from History
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Individuals’ choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills. We first present a model to show how differences in educational content emerge as an equilibrium outcome of private decisions...
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Property Rights Reform and Development: A Critique of the Cross-National Regression Literature
King, Lawrence; Martínez, Osvaldo Gómez - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2010
The legal protection of property rights is increasingly viewed as a crucial, if not the crucial, condition for economic growth and pro-poor development. Empirical support is generally based on cross-national correlations between measures of secure property rights and good development outcomes in...
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