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Gouvernance, Démocratie et lutte contre la pauvreté en afrique : Expérience et point de vue de la population de huit métropoles Enquêtes 1-2-3, Premiers résultats
Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2005
to be thought of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially … public institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this … qualité des institutions (notamment publiques) et le type de régime politique ou plus généralement le système de valeurs de la …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416729
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Institutions, the cost of capital, and long-run economic growth: Evidence from the 19th century capital market
Alquist, Ron; Cha, Ben - 2012
estimate the country-specific cost of capital. We find a negative relationship between institutions that protect property … rights and capital costs. Firms located in countries with weak institutions were charged a premium compared to similarly … risky firms located in countries with strong institutions, and this penalty appeared to be costly in terms of future growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292144
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Migration, trade and income
Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293104
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Large-Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Land Governance Systems: Actors and Institutions in the Case of Zambia
Nolte, Kerstin - 2013
This paper reveals how the outcomes of large-scale land acquisitions made by foreign investors in Zambia are determined by the characteristics of the country's land governance system. Proposing a conceptual framework adapted from Williamson (1998), and using evidence constituted by expert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293899
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Social Unrest in the Wake of IMF Structural Adjustment Programs
Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2013
This paper proposes an answer to the question of why social unrest sometimes occurs in the wake of an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Under certain circumstances, partly determined by a country’s comparative advantage, a nation’s elite may have an incentive to make transfers to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293907
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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013
We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293919
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Fiscal decentralization and pollution: Institutions matter
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Mennel, Tim - 2012
institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294383
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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007
the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294570
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - 2007
financial crises to improve their institutions and grow up to financial stability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295241
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-12, pp. 1-17
financial crises to improve their institutions and grow up to financial stability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295310