institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the … relationship between institutions and various response variables related to environmental performance and environmental policy have …

distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …

outcomes. Finally, while the effects of growth and unemployment rates are the same across demographic subsets, the effect of … skilled or not working. Our findings reinforce the political importance of employment and growth policies. …

Social Responsibility ; Growth …

premised on the understanding that institutions matter for development. However, there is no straightforward answer to the … question of what exactly 'institutions' are, how they change, or how they can be made to change to become more supportive of an …

in 1992. To examine the dynamics of the growth and subsequent reduction in government spending, we present a dynamic … GDP - but eventually diverge from output due to the growth of the welfare state. After government expenditures become … large, we identify an endogenous threshold on the economy's growth path where it is optimal for politicians to shrink the …

the inherent difficulty of planting democracy in so inhospitable a social environment as Iraq's. This paper examines the … society in making democracy work …

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …