This article summarizes the principal findings of the studies on institutions and development as they refer to the Dominican case study, in the context of the Project Institutions and Development in Latin America, which is directed by Alejandro Portes of the University of Princeton. The project...

This paper’s main thesis is that Chile’s developmental performance of recent decades was underpinned by significant and systematic institutional change, and that this change is closely related with its transformation from a state-centered society to a market centered one. The analysis will...