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The primacy of institutions reconsidered : the effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Carstensen, Kai; Gundlach, Erich - 2005 - Revised, August 2005
institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical … from our estimates that implementing good institutions appears to be necessary but not sufficient to generate a persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415290
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2015
This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe … of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … the beneficial e.ects of institutions, mitigating the adverse e.ects of non-cohesiveness, its simultaneous contribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333029
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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Innovation at the World Bank : selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005
Grawe, Roger - 2013
The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202213
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Donor relations and sovereignty
Flentø, Johnny; Simao, Leonardo Santos - 2020
and carefully weigh conflicting interests of its partners against its own long-term interests. The institutions Mozambique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301840
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The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment : firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities
Reyes, José-Daniel; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 15-28
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element),...
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Death tolls from natural disasters : influence of interactions among fiscal decentralization, institutions and economic development
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
. Furthermore, the interaction between decentralization and high quality institutions has a greater contribution to the reduction of … countries with higher quality institutions. However, when essential technology does not exist, decentralization and quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526622
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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938214
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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961146
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The crisis after the crisis : resilience or reset?
Ioan-Franc, Valeriu; Diamescu, Andrei-Marius - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 58, pp. 864-874
The concept of "the crisis after the crisis" recently introduced in the academic debate refers to the fact that, since the outbreak of the health crisis generated by SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic has had a major impact on all economic, social, political and cultural activities of the daily life,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939715