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The Argentina Paradox : microexplanations and macropuzzles

Taylor, Alan M. - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 27 (2018), pp. 1-17

The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various...

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History without evidence : Latin American inequality since 1491

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

-conquest Americas, and that this fact supported rent-seeking and anti-growth institutions which help explain the disappointing growth …

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Institutions and Asia's development : the role of norms and organizational power

Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2018

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …

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Regulating to exclude or to enable : institution building and transnational standard adoption in Mexican food safety

McDermott, Gerald A.; Avendaño Ruíz, Belem - In: Studies in comparative international development : SCID 59 (2024) 4, pp. 636-664

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Process and pattern in institutional reforms : a case study of the police pacifying units (UPPs) in Brazil

Denyer Willis, Graham; Prado, Mariana Mota - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 232-242

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Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone : political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards

Villegas Plá, Belén; Milcíades Peña, Alejandro - In: Review of international political economy 32 (2025) 1, pp. 29-52

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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016

Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....

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Macrofinancial Linkages and Growth at Risk in the Dominican Republic

Bespalova, Olga - 2019

This paper uses the Growth-at-Risk (GaR) methodology to examine how macrofinancial conditions affect the growth outlook and its probability distribution. Using this approach, we evaluate risks to GDP growth in the Dominican Republic using quarterly data for 1996-2018. We group macrofinancial...

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Economic Analysis and Forecasting in the Global Economy and in Emerging and Developing Regions Including Africa : How Informative Is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna - 2016

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Productivity and Tax Evasion

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2020

system. Tax evasion undermines revenue collection, distorts competition, and undermines a country's development prospects. In …

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