Institutions play an important role in explaining poverty. Along with institution, fundamental forces like geography and climate influence poverty too. Analysis shows that probability of being poor is high for countries at the equator but it declines with latitude. Empirical evidence in India...

From the 19th century to the 1940's, Quebec remained poorer and less economically developed than the rest of Canada in general and poorer than Ontario in particular. This placed Quebec at the bottom of North American rankings of living standards. One prominent hypothesis for the initiation of...

This study discusses the impact of economic geography and (low) population density on development outcomes in Mali and explores how policies to reduce poverty can be made more effective by taking these two factors into account. The crisis in north Mali which started in 2012 and continues to date...