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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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Institutional monocropping and monotasking in Africa
Mkandawire, Thandika - In: Good growth and governance in Africa : rethinking …, (pp. 80-113). 2012
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An institutional perspective to challenges undermining innovation activities in Africa
Mudombi, Shakespear; Muchie, Mammo - In: Innovation and development 4 (2014) 2, pp. 313-326
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Building markets between institutional discontinuities : intermediation between formal and informal sectors in developing countries
Luiz, John M.; Guchu, Baldwin - In: Africa journal of management 8 (2022) 2, pp. 218-237
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Institutional change and economic development : a conceptual analysis of the African case
Adanu, Kwami - In: International journal of social economics 44 (2017) 4, pp. 547-559
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A South-South perspective on emerging economy companies and institutional coevolution : an empirical study of Chinese multinationals in Africa
Mazé, Dominique; Chailan, Claude - In: International business review : the official journal of … 30 (2021) 4, pp. 1-16
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Indigenous African Institutions and Economic Development
Chamlee-Wright, Emily - 2008
the West as a model. This indeed has been the case in Ghana, West Africa. In Ghana s urban centers, the large buildings …
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Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence
Acemoglu, Daron - 2020
In this essay, we provide a simple conceptual framework to elucidate the forces that lead to institutional persistence and change. Our framework is based on a dynamic game between different groups, who care both about current policies and institutions and future policies, which are themselves...
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Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2006
nondemocracy to democracy, alters the distribution of de jure political power, but the elite can intensify their investments in de … we refer to as invariance. When the model is enriched to allow for limits on the exercise of de facto power by the elite … may survive, but choose economic institutions favoring the elite. The main ideas featuring in the model are illustrated …
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