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reduce poverty and inequality in society that are essential prerequisites for supporting sustainable economic growth of … supports a reduction of poverty and income inequality in society. In particular, results here show that the critical role of … good governance for reducing inequality and poverty has a higher effect in countries with stable economies than emerging …
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We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
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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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in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …
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Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
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This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …
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-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible … size and use of contributions, and the evolution in global governance and democracy that a new deal would entail. We …
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transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … the trade-to-grossdomestic-product ratio to measure openness often fail to find a direct effect of openness on poverty over … and above the growth-poverty nexus. This paper is motivated by the concern that the failure of these studies to detect the …
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This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …
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