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Development at the border: a study of national integration in post-colonial West Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Spielvogel, Gilles - DIAL - 2010

In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...

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Development at the border: a study of national integration in post-colonial West Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Spielvogel, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

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Institutional change and economic evolution in regions

Grillitsch, Markus - 2014

the context of evolutionary economic geography, a proposal for understanding regional institutional frameworks and …

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Geography, Transparency and Institutions

Mayshar, Joram; Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

geography and these institutions, we posit, is via the effect of transparency on the state's extractive capacity. We apply our …

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Regional Transformation: Institutional Change and Economic Evolution in Regions

Grillitsch, Markus - European Regional Science Association - 2014

the context of evolutionary economic geography, a proposal for understanding regional institutional frameworks and …

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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...

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Do Institutions Rule? The Role of Heterogeneity in the Institutions vs. Geography Debate

Kourtellos, Andros; Stengos, Thanasis; Tan, Chih Ming - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009

versus geography debate in growth are potentially misleading. …

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Do Institutions Rule? The Role of Heterogeneity in the Institutions vs. Geography Debate

Kourtellos, Andros; Strengos, Thanasis; Tan, Chih Ming - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2009

versus geography debate in growth are potentially misleading. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987131

Myths and Realities of Long-run Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants

Hasan, Lubna - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2006

highlighted in literature: institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is the more … important. The “Institutions school” assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the “Geography school” considers … their hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a …

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Myths and Realities of Long-run Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants

Hasan, Lubna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

highlighted in literature: institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is more … important. The “Institutions school” assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the “Geography school” considers … hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a consistent story of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789903