legal rights for gay men, GDP per capita, democracy and economic globalization tend to benefit gays, primarily by shaping …

Using World Bank data on institutional quality and the KOF Globalization Index, we examine over 100 countries from 1992 … to 2010 to analyze the relationship between economic and social globalization and six measures of institutional quality …. Theoretically, the incentives of elites to respond to globalization by improving institutions should differ between low-income and …

relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … using a "long run" first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We … policies) and social globalization (information flows, personal contact and cultural proximity) respectively, controlling for …