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How Does Institutional Change Coincide with Changes in the Quality of Life? An Exemplary Case Study
Exenberger, Andreas; Hartmann, Simon - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
institutional change with distinctly different degrees of effectiveness; and thirdly, we are able to provide qualitative information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633551
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How does institutional change coincide with changes in the quality of life? : an exemplary case study
Exenberger, Andreas; Hartmann, Simon - 2013
its application to comparative case studies. -- institutions ; human development ; Congo (Democratic Republic) ; history … institutional change with distinctly different degrees of effectiveness; and thirdly, we are able to provide qualitative information … ; effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743400
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The Role of Institutions, Ethnic Fractionalization and Colonization and their Impact on Economic Growth and Development in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya
Hall, Sarah; Ollimo, Mabel - 2022
with an imperial history. The countries chosen, have two different modern trajectories, the first of the countries; The … Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya have a history of European colonization, whilst Ethiopia and Eritrea, resisted European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291755
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How Does Institutional Change Coincide with Changes in the Quality of Life? An Exemplary Case Study
Exenberger, Andreas; Hartmann, Simon - 2013
institutional change with distinctly different degrees of effectiveness; and thirdly, we are able to provide qualitative information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158279
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Colonialism and development in Africa
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A. - 2013
In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes retarding it. In the African case, however, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624354
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Colonialism and development in Africa
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A. - African Economic History Network - 2013
In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes retarding it. In the African case, however, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896614
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Empowering Leaders Through Inquiry in Burundi and the DR Congo
Lempereur, Alain - 2017
Training programs can facilitate responsible leadership, when they are anchored in inquiry. Whether we talk about Burundi in 2005 or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2006, a democratic process took place, which built upon strong local and international leaders’ empowerment. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133580
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Historical Missionary Activity, Schooling, and the Reversal of Fortunes : Evidence from Nigeria
Okoye, Dozie - 2014
This paper shows that historical missionary activity has had a persistent effect on schooling outcomes, and contributed to a reversal of fortunes wherein historically richer ethnic groups are poorer today. Combining contemporary individual-level data with a newly constructed dataset on mission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048853
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A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions
Congleton, Roger D.; Yoo, Dongwoo - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2014
This paper focuses on the source of path dependency in institutions. Within a bargaining theory of reform, the domain … natural moments for constitutional reform that unraveled the relatively high-quality political and legal institutions agreed … contemporary institutions than states that began with less restrictive constitutional rules and experienced more constitutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888258
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-Run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa's well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP's HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669358