traditionally the household financial managers. This culture was strongly altered by the British in the mid-19th century through …-collected data of 650 individuals from the matrilineal state of Meghalaya, India, and exploring household's distance to the …

syndrome of culturally embedded democracy in rich countries only. Using these climato-economic niches of culture, we then …In a 104-nation study we first demonstrate that cultural self-expression, individualism and democracy languish in poor … estimate how unarrested global warming in conjunction with unaltered economic growth would affect democratic culture in 138 …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while … other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper … processes on their overall development. We argue that insight into the development-constraining attributes of African culture …