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: culture, corruption, and institutions. The last offers the most convincing explanation for mediocre growth. Hence, to raise … corruption; and above all, focused and sustained development of functional capitalistic institutions. …
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institutions and capabilities and productivity of their actors; and the role of governance against the backdrop of development … constraints and supported by opportunities for reforms. It further argues that institutions and their actors take the primordial … is a function of the triangulation of policy, institutions, and finance within value-based and principle …
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conceptual difference between institutions and policies. It is then discussed the relevance of institutional arrangements to …
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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...
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substantially during the last decades. At the same time, the quality of institutions in developing countries has also improved. The … findings indicate that emigration to institutionally developed countries induces a positive effect on home-country institutions. …
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In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
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The paper presents the results based on the survey about the development of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Poland. The authors present the owner's opinions of NGOs managers. Moreover, the authors presented characteristics of the non-governmental organizations and the area of their...
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in a small grid and gets weaker the larger the unit of observation. National institutions and economic conditions are …
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This paper reviews the main methodological innovations in Asian Drama. It considers whether Myrdal's perspectives have been adopted by development analysts, and where fresh thinking is needed, particularly in the light of changes occurring in the half-century since he wrote Asian Drama. The...
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The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …
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