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Hernandez Lopez, Ernesto - 2020

Genetically modified (“GMO”) corn germinates legal controversies in México. Since 2013, Mexican courts have temporarily suspended GMO corn because it threatens biodiversity. In the Colectividad del Maíz lawsuit, courts have prohibited México from issuing commercial GMO permits while the...

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History, Institutions, and Economic Performance : The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2009

We analyze the colonial land revenue institutions set up by the British in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences in economic outcomes. Areas in which proprietary rights in land were historically given to landlords have...

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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

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Institutions, Human Capital and Development

Acemoglu, Daron; Gallego, Francisco A.; Robinson, James A. - 2014

In this paper we revisit the relationship between institutions, human capital and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement...

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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2008

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and institutional outcomes. Thus, one can disentangle the partial effects of endowments and institutions on income by utilizing the...

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: A Solution to the Debate on Settler Mortality Rates

Auer, Raphael - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2007

I address David Albouy's (2006) critique of the data constructed by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson (2001). The contribution of this paper is to instrument for settler mortality rates that are collected from historical sources - and that may be measured with error - with a...

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: A Solution to the Debate on Settler Mortality Rates

Auer, Raphael - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2007

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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2008

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Political Structure as a Legacy of Indirect Colonial Rule: Bargaining between National Governments and Rural Elites in Africa

Mizuno, Nobuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In such alliances, the national governments preserve rural-elite authority formed during the colonial era and cede their resources and prerogatives to the rural elites. This paper develops a model of...

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Democracy and prosperity in two decades of transition

Apolte, Thomas - 2010

This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a …-shaped relationship between political liberalization and growth is found, such that a rise in democracy levels promotes growth only under … initially low democracy levels. Furthermore, economic and political liberalization turn out to be positively related, but with …

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