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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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How does high dependence on natural resources affect income inequality? Surprisingly little is known about the impact of dependence on primary goods on income distribution. Building on insights from the resource curse literature, this paper studies the relationship between income shocks through...
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To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime...
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Recent evidence from citation analysis [Mitra, S., Palmer, M, Vuon, V. (2020). Development and interdisciplinarity: A … citation analysis. World Development, 135, 105076; hereafter MPV] shows that development as a field of study hardly interacts … tend to publish more in development studies journals. In this paper, I apply an alternative approach in identifying the …
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implications for industrial development. Using data from Peru, we document substantial employer concentration and high self …
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Confronted with a new wave of criticism on the in effectiveness of its development programs, the World Bank embarked on … a revitalization process, turning to private investors to finance International Development Association projects and … for development through a "cascade approach," and expanding the scope of its mandate into adjacent domains of …
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We construct a new global commodity-level export dataset to analyze the persistence of export patterns as proxies of productive capabilities across the first and the current waves of globalization. We find that productive capabilities are path-dependent and historical capabilities are powerful...
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This paper studies the long-term effect of taxation on economic geography and development. We rely on a unique natural … on economic geography and development. These effects are, then, confirmed in a DiD analysis, that studies a very large …
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to achieve their ambitious goal of promoting sustainable development through trade integration in Africa. In light of … on the use of regional and subregional approaches to development. Instead of full-fledged trade liberalization and …
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This paper explores whether the EU's new economic development model of "competitive sustainability" could serve as a … role model for ecologically sustainable development models for advanced economies in general. To this end, we first discuss …
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