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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest

Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004

. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …

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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest

Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004

. 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

Unbundling Ex-Colonies: A Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson, 2001

Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

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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Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Poor

Hibbs Jr., Douglas A.; Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

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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Geography and Institutions: A Review of Plausible and Implausible Linkages

Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

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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Social capital and innovation in East Asia

Cho, Seo-Young - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 1, pp. 207-238

This paper investigates the relationship between social capital and innovation in high-performing East Asian economies. Rapid economic growth and innovation in these economies contradicts the presumed positive link between social trust and innovation suggested in the literature, as these...

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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015

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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The Deep Determinants of the Middle-Income Trap

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

experience a growth slowdown at the middle-income range. Although these so-called `deep determinants' such as geography and …

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The Deep Determinants at More Subtle Stages of Development: The Example of the Middle-Income Trap Phenomenon

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

The so-called 'deep determinants' of economic growth and development (namely, geography, institutions, and integration …

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Myths and Realities of Long-run Development : A Look at Deeper Determinants

Hasan, Lubna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

highlighted in literature : institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is the more … important. The Institutions school assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the Geography school considers … their hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a …

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