This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe … of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … the beneficial e.ects of institutions, mitigating the adverse e.ects of non-cohesiveness, its simultaneous contribution to …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis …

There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively … little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to … know how institutions change. This paper provides a systematic econometric investigation of long-run patterns of …

: social institutions related to gender inequality, defined as societal practices and legal norms that frame gender roles and … that fragile states perform worse than other non-fragile developing countries when considering these social institutions …. We suggest that a special set of indicators reflecting social institutions related to gender inequality in both fragile …

of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three … institutions for technologies rather than for industries, we reveal important growth opportunities for developing countries and …

economic development, notably institutions and geography. This article shows that it is not only absolute geography, in terms … matters for a country's GDP per capita. More specifically, we analyze the importance of the geography of institutions. We show … that apart from its own institutions, the institutional quality in neighboring countries is also important for a country …

Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions.Our survey of …

Sub-Saharan African countries have undergone fundamental changes in political regime type, but political institutions … order effect comes from the interaction of political and economic institutions. The rules of game which emerge from this … reinforces inefficient political institutions. This is what has created a development trap for most countries of Sub …