planning scholars, may help development scholars understand processes of institutional change. Second, some patterns, such as …

resource measure, using alternative measures of both resources and institutions, and by studying different time periods. While … institutions are good enough. …

belief in occult forces has serious implications for development cooperation. Development projects, which constitute arenas …

This paper synthesizes evidence from four recent “community-driven development” field experiments undertaken in …-affected environments are presumed to be settings that combine extraordinary need and opportunity for building institutions. The substantive …

adding to the history of troubled elections in Africa. This paper offers quantitative and qualitative evidence on the issues …

The role of development cooperation in fostering improved environmental governance of extractive industries in African …

missionary education to distinguish long-run effects of colonial institutions and human capital. Results indicate that only … colonial institutions had robust impacts on local economic outcomes. Analysis of transmission mechanisms suggests that these … effects are explained by higher-quality property rights institutions, but not by persistence in economic activities like the …

Institutions matter within natural resource management. While there are many examples of analyses of the nature and … influence of institutions within fisheries, there are fewer examples of how institutions inform the practice and outcomes of co …-management. This article reports on analysis of institutions and fisheries co-management in East African and Malawi inland fisheries …

This paper tests whether social trust affects total factor productivity (TFP). Using both development and growth … observe that the effect of social trust on TFP runs through economic-judicial institutions, but not through political … institutions. Those findings resist a series of robustness checks. …