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Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night Lights Data

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021

We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …

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Did Africa's first choices matter? : growth legacies of leaders at independence

Jørgensen, Christina Mangaard; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...

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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

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Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2015

We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …

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Economic freedom and economic crisis

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...

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Institutions and poverty : a critical comment based on evolving currents and debates

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2014

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …

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Do weak institutions prolong crises? : on the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps

Bluhm, Richard; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Szirmai, Adam - 2014

institutions precede crises and, interestingly, positive reforms occur thereafter. Strong institutions shorten the duration of … interaction effect suggests they can be offset by appropriate institutions. …

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Benchmarking institutional and structural indicators in EU candidate and potential candidate countries

Alvarez Orviz, Roberto; Savelin, Li - 2017

, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. Sound institutions … the quality of their institutions and economic governance over the past decade, it is crucial that they preserve the …

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The deep determinants of the middle-income trap

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

institutions have been found to be decisive for the break out of stagnation and for explaining cross-country income differences by …

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The deep determinants at more subtle stages of development : the example of the middle-income trap phenomenon

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

The so-called 'deep determinants' of economic growth and development (namely, geography, institutions, and integration …) have been found to be decisive for the break out of stagnation and for explaining cross-country income differences by many …

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