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economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation …
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its Spanish initials).After identifying some of the contextual dimensions that configure the development of organizational …
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, that economic development does not inevitably lead to a particular form of taxation, but rather that institutional context …
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In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president. Pinochet's supporters argued that the coup was the only way to save the country amid statism and socioeconomic breakdown. But how much was Allende to blame for the crisis that...
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competition – to create a vicious cycle of low growth, income stagnation, limited structural change, and ethnic polarisation today …
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This study shows that civilians' behavior can be severely affected by territorial control by an insurgent group, and that these effects can persist after the government regains control and the occupation ends. I consider a framework of civilian behavior under insurgent rule, where civilians have...
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This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
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cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two …. Economic institutions encouraging economic growth emerge when political institutions allocate power to groups with interests in …
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This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...
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Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
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