development; and the problems in maintaining of full accountability. …

The paper reviews the literature on social capital and development and identifies key properties of this concept that … possible, and the presence of supportive institutions which make minimum human capital and complementary goods available. …

collected by the authors in June 2012, we investigate the factors that are correlated with knowledge of the formal institutions …. There is evidence of a clear gender distinction both in terms of the knowledge of the formal institutions, and in income … likely to benefit from the knowledge of formal institutions of disability. Through our analysis we have sought to expand the …

were recommended. In more recent years the main focus has been on the idea that institutions matter and that aid policy to … institutions. The four articles written by Barucci from 1970 to 2007 show how economic thought on the Mezzogiorno evolved. The …

We ran principal component regressions of growth and income on existing measures of institutions to assess which are … the most important for economic performance. We find that broadly defined institutions of checks and balances as well as a … democratic and anti-authoritarian culture are the most robust institutional determinants of long-run growth in income. …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … effect between culture and institutions. …

religion on fatalistic beliefs seem to be an important element determining fatalistic tendencies. However there are not large …