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Institutions, Governance, Business Environment: To what Extent do they Affect Growth? - Istituzioni, governance e business environment: come influiscono sullo sviluppo economico?
Parravicini, Paola; Tagliabue, Giovanna - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 66 (2013) 1, pp. 69-85
Lots of studies were produced in the past decade on the importance of the quality of the institutions for economic development. Several authors focused on the indicators provided by Doing Business (World Bank) to highlight the main factors favouring or rather limiting the economic development....
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Trade Openness, Institutional Change and Economic Growth
Navas, Antonio - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between trade openness and economic growth through a change in institutions. To do so, the paper creates a theory of endogenous institutional change where there are three social groups, each one owns a specific production factor. An ellite (landowners)...
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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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Indices, Institutions and Economic Growth: In Search of Reliable Indicators (recount)
Yanovsky, Konstantin; Menyashev, Rinat; Ginker, Timofey - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2014
The ratings of economic and political institutions are well-known and widely used in the Social Science literature. These ratings are heavily relied on Experts' evaluations with subjective ordinal ranking (i.g., from -10 to 10 points). Such evaluations can be occasionally driven by ideological...
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Estimating the effects of democratization in African countries: A simultaneous equations approach
Green, Alan - In: Economic Systems 37 (2013) 4, pp. 555-571
growth and of greater political participation on civil violence. Democracy is endogenous to economic growth and other …
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The Political Economy of Growth: A Review
Hazama, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This cursory literature review discusses the direct and indirect effects of institutions, governance, and democracy on …. Even reforms that are less than comprehensive can stimulate, though not sustain, growth. Second, democracy neither promotes … but not democracy does not. The difference may be partly due to negative effects on investment and labor supply as well as …
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Institutions, ratings and economic growth: in search of reliable indicators
Menyashev, Rinat; Natkhov, Timur; Yanovskiy, Konstantin - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
The ratings of political institutions are well-known and widely used in academic literature. These ratings are mostly based on expert evaluations. However, such evaluations can be subjective and occasionally driven by ideological considerations. In this paper we propose two new indicators of...
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Constitutions and the resource curse
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Aslaksen, Silje - Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges … - 2006
Recent advances in the political economy literature suggests that constitutional arrangements determine a wide range of economic pol icy outcomes. In particular, it is argued that different forms of government (presidential versus parliamentary) induce more or less 'growth promoting' policies....
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125845
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688697