We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …

underdeveloped markets for capital and information; (2) by discouraging the evolution of the economic and political institutions …

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … (from a Gini of 0.525 to 0.521) but the portion that cannot be explained by political institutions has increased …