The view that European institutions do not operate with maximum efficiency, that they are not yet able to cope with all … emerged in recent years. In this paper we try to clarify the concept of institutional efficiency, and try to follow from a … chronological perspective the main events that led to the more or less efficient European institutions. …

We take advantage of a quasi-natural experiment in Peru by which the privatized telecommunications company was required …

of Telecommunications, ed. Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun (Johns Hopkins University Press and IFPRI, 2006) "The …, Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction: The Potential of Telecommunications, published … economic growth? (2) Do weak institutions block effective use of ICTs? (3) Have ICTs been adapted to low-income countries, and …