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management capacity of key organizations working in a descentralized way and their background on local development governance …
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The importance of political local coalitions in shaping local governance structures conducive to economic growth has … governance structures in promoting growth. The channels through which such impact may generate include providing particular …
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Does trade improve institutions and contribute to long run growth? I develop a theory of trade, in which trade liberalization provides incentive to change institutions in two ways. On the one hand, trade leads to specialization according to comparative advantage, expanding the industries that do...
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Many cross-country studies acknowledge the indispensable role of institutions in promoting economic growth and in sustaining economic development. So, their emphases have shifted to determine the most influential institution(s) in order to be specific. While these papers are widespread in the...
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We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracy on institutional quality is increasing...
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disruptive creation mechanism or reduce it by stimulating corruption, distorting the markets and deteriorating social capital. We …
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Air quality is one of the major concerns in big cities. It is therefore of interest to evaluate properly air pollution. Specifically, this paper aims at measuring how air quality is incorporated in transaction prices in downtown Madrid. For that purpose, we use multilevel models since our sample...
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for knowledge and skills' transfer and governance coordination of the layers involved. Several concepts and indicators can … be combined to support a conceptual framework for governance redefinition and sustainable growth. A comparison with … could facilitate governance and growth sustainability. It is less the size or the level of economic development that …
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