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Institutions Do Not Rule : Reassessing the Driving Forces of Economic Development

Luo, Jinfeng - 2019

The pursuit to uncover the driving forces behind cross-country income gaps has divided economists into two major camps: One emphasizes institutions, while the other stresses non-institutional forces such as geography. Each school of thought has its own theoretical foundation and empirical...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of thousands of years ago, contributed to the differential formation of pre …

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Do Institutions Quality Affect FDI Inflows in Sub Saharan African Countries?

Fiodendji, Daniel - 2014

One of the problems which sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are confronted with is the low level of investment. Yet, the theory of capital tells us that it is impossible to envisage development without a considerable accumulation of capital. An important channel through which those countries...

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676

Institutional differences across resource-based economies

Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016

To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...

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Institutional Transformation and the Origins of World Income Distribution

Spruk, Rok - 2017

This paper presents an attempt to quantify institutional changes and examine the respective effects of de jure and de facto political institutions on the path of long-run economic growth and development for a large panel of countries in the period 1810–2000. Using factor analysis, latent...

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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to...

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Institutional Development and Economic Growth

Lal, Deepak - 2000

This paper surveys the role of institutions in promoting economic growth in cross-cultural and historical perspective. It examines inter alia, whether institutional development can be incorporated in formal growth theory, the influence of politics on economic growth and the relationship of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181613

Institutional Framework and Poverty : A Transition Economy Perspective

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2021

This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320747

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