During the subprime financial crisis of 2007-2009, the U.S. transformed its policies from a focus on privatization and deregulation to one where the government plays an active role as a market participant. By the end of the 2009 fiscal year, the U.S. government became one of the largest...

The objective of this paper was to briefly review development paradigms and their applications to African countries and propose a new development paradigm. Past development paradigms were briefly reviewed. It was showed that The Common thread in all the past development paradigms is that they...

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....

Homo transformaticus, therefore, is the carrier of a necroeconomy's routine who transforms economy. Unlike a necroeconomy, whose routine is carried by a human being which is 'still-to-be-formed,' a zombie-economy's routine is carried by the 'gone and departed' man, the so-called zombie...

After the collapse of the Communist regimes, the countries of the former Soviet Union found themselves with only a very small amount of goods to supply to the global market. An economy of this type is nothing more than a 'necroeconomy.' Dead firms ('zombie-firms') do exist and 'successfully'...

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths....

If property rights in land are so beneficial, why are they not adopted more widely? I propose a theory based on the idea that limited property rights over peasants' plots may be supported by elite landowners (who depend on peasants for labour) to achieve two goals. First, like other distortions...

This paper tests the theoretical framework developed by North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) on the transition from closed to open access societies. They posit that societies need to go through three doorsteps: the establishment of rule of law among elites; the adoption of perpetually existing...

The paper identifies and analyzes the four main fault lines which will influence the next decades of global philanthropy. All are related to what we can refer to as "the market revolution in global philanthropy". As global philanthropy moves beyond grantmaking, into investment approaches that...