A szerzõ azt vizsgálja, milyen csatornákon keresztül mozdíthatja elõ az informatikai szektor a világgazdaság centrumán kívüli gazdaságok modernizációját. Az informatikai feldolgozóiparnak a „globális iparág” sajátosságaiból következõen jelentõs felzárkóztatási...

A tanulmány célja, hogy gazdagítsa és pontosítsa a gazdasági és politikai szabadság kapcsolatának elméleti magyarázatait. Ennek keretében a Hayek-Friedman-hipotézis értelmezésében a társadalmi rendekre vonatkozó elméletet (North és szerzőtársai [2009]) használjuk, s ez egy...

The economic crisis triggered in 2007 made many believe that a relatively long period will follow, where the public will favor a greater role for the state. I appreciate that, on the contrary, the public attitude will act in the opposite direction and that, for a long period of time, we will...

Fast and shared growth in East Asia was ascribed to strong states and their peculiar institutional arrangements, free-market policies, and Asian values, respectively. This paper provides a critical overview of these rival accounts explaining the miracle and on post-crisis retrenchement. As...

We document, for the first time, the institution-building activities of the development economist W.Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) as founder of Community House and the South Hulme Evening Centre, two further education centres which sought to fight discrimination against the Afro-Caribbean communities...

This study aims to assess the social efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) —regulated and non-regulated— in Peru. Social efficiency is referred to the capacity of MFIs to produce more social outputs —number of poor clients and women served— without using more resources. The Data...

We construct an index for national identity using information from the World Values Survey on peoples’ attitudes concerning politics and to the state itself. We then analyze the relationship between our new measure of national identity and social heterogeneity. The results indicate that...

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the great challenges that will characterize the XXI Century. In the background we consider the problem of the relationship between “Us” and the “Others”, that is how to reconcile the power of Western universalism with the multitudes of other...

This paper investigates the links between climate change and growth and development in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank and using a sample of twenty-two developing economies, we find that per capita GDP growth is dependent upon internet access, the change in average annual...