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Institutions et impact des IDE dans les pays en développement : le secteur de la grande distribution au Mexique

Durand, Cédric - HAL - 2006

les déterminants institutionnels de cet impact à partir d'une étude empiriquesur la présence d'entreprises multinationales …

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Gouvernance, Démocratie et lutte contre la pauvreté en afrique : Expérience et point de vue de la population de huit métropoles Enquêtes 1-2-3, Premiers résultats

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2005

to be thought of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially … public institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this … qualité des institutions (notamment publiques) et le type de régime politique ou plus généralement le système de valeurs de la …

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Institutions, the cost of capital, and long-run economic growth: Evidence from the 19th century capital market

Alquist, Ron; Cha, Ben - 2012

estimate the country-specific cost of capital. We find a negative relationship between institutions that protect property … rights and capital costs. Firms located in countries with weak institutions were charged a premium compared to similarly … risky firms located in countries with strong institutions, and this penalty appeared to be costly in terms of future growth …

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Migration, trade and income

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2013

institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …

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Large-Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Land Governance Systems: Actors and Institutions in the Case of Zambia

Nolte, Kerstin - 2013

This paper reveals how the outcomes of large-scale land acquisitions made by foreign investors in Zambia are determined by the characteristics of the country's land governance system. Proposing a conceptual framework adapted from Williamson (1998), and using evidence constituted by expert...

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Social Unrest in the Wake of IMF Structural Adjustment Programs

Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2013

This paper proposes an answer to the question of why social unrest sometimes occurs in the wake of an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Under certain circumstances, partly determined by a country’s comparative advantage, a nation’s elite may have an incentive to make transfers to the...

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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013

We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...

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