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Key actors in UN environmental governance: influence, reform and leadership

Andresen, Steinar - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 7 (2007) 4, pp. 457-468

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Competing Knowledge Systems in the Management of Fish and Forests in the Pacific Northwest

King, Leslie - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 4 (2004) 2, pp. 161-177

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Inequality in developing economies: The role of institutional development

Easaw, Joshy; Savoia, Antonio - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

economies, economic institutions, such as property rights systems, may act to preserve the interests of a rich minority, but … larger in low-democracy environments; (c) a minority of countries have developed a set political institutions capable of …

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Economic Policies and Bankruptcy Institutions: Brazil in a Period of Transition from Colony to Independent Nation

Oliveira, Maria Teresa Ribeiro de - In: Economia 7 (2006) 4, pp. 99-121

work deliberately seeks to incorporate institutions into the study of Brazilian economic history, based on the assumption … that the lack of interest in the role played by these institutions has hindered a better understanding of the country …

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Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to addresses this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends - in a subtle way - on the details of democratic...

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Long Term Persistence

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions we test Putnam’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of independence fostered by the free city-states...

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Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade

Francois, Joseph; Manchin, Miriam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We …

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Organismos reguladores del sistema de salud colombiano: Conformación, funcionamiento y resposabilidades

Velandia Naranjo, Durfari; Zea, Restrepo; Humberto, Jairo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Regulation is a way of intervention of the public sector, which uses its legitimate and coercive power to establish restrictions to agent’s activities who participate in the market and guarantee the efficient allocation of goods and services and social welfare. In Colombia, as an interesting...

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

Hasan, Lubna Hasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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Morality, institutions and economic growth: Lessons from ancient Greece

Bitros, George; Karayiannis, Anastassios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

hand in hand with the great institutions of private property, democ-racy, and free markets. Our approach enables us to … period 490-338 BC. Athens grew vastly wealthier than Sparta essentially because its institutions were optimally adjusted to … confront the basic scarcity of grains, whereas the institutions of Sparta were optimally adjusted to sustain its military …

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