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. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …
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. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118852
There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes …
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we show that differences in biogeographic initial conditions and in geography largely account for the different timings … nations today. The effects of biogeography and geography on the wealth of nations are partly mediated by the quality of …
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There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes …
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In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to … understanding for this type of regularities, this article reviews the growing empirical literature on geography and institutions, as … well as a large body of older and newer theoretical works on the social impacts of geography. It is argued that the most …
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In this comment on AJR (2001), we argue that a bundling of all former colonies into one ‘colonial’ theory of comparative development is problematic for several reasons. During the mercantilist wave of mainly Latin American colonization between 1500-1830, strong capitalist institutions were...
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In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...
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In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707640
the context of evolutionary economic geography, a proposal for understanding regional institutional frameworks and …
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