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Africa 2050 : jobs and prosperity in a multipolar global economy ; moving out of fragility and conflict
Michailof, Serge - In: Global journal of emerging market economies 5 (2013) 2, pp. 117-149
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359168
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406570
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Deliberation and development : rethinking the role of voice and collective action in unequal societies
Heller, Patrick (contributor); Rao, Vijayendra (contributor) - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317347
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Deliberation and development : rethinking the role of voice and collective action in unequal societies
Heller, Patrick - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245148
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Media development and political stability : an analysis of sub-Saharan Africa
Roy, Sanjukta - In: The journal of developing areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 255-273
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364592
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668293
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635451
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - In: Journal of development economics 120 (2016), pp. 209-223
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637301
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Machine learning indices, political institutions, and economic development
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2018
democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and … creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on … results are affected by conceptual and methodological changes in the measure of democracy. In particular, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804191
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Determinants of property rights institutions: survey of literature and new evidence
Abdoul’ Mijiyawa - In: Economics of Governance 14 (2013) 2, pp. 127-183
Why do some countries have better institutions than others? More specifically, what accounts for variation in the … quality of property rights institutions in different countries? In this paper, I empirically assess four different theories … relating to the determinants of property rights institutions: (1) the economic approach, which maintains that property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011000024