diversity and economic development depend substantially on coding errors and sample selection. We correct the coding errors and … hypothesis that variation in genetic diversity among subpopulations has a systematic relationship with economic development. …

propensity to effect policies that favour the development of financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has … policies towards financial development. As a policy implication, once democracy is initiated, it should be accelerated (to edge …This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …

To explain the process of development historically documented, we consider a model with three economic sectors … agricultural and manufactured goods. Our parsimonious model captures within a single framework the process of development which is … characterized by the structural changes in the workforce across sectors, variable growth rates (an initial "Malthusian regime …

-Run Economic Growth ; Comparative Development ; Colonized Countries ; Early Development … population density measures used by Acemoglu et al. (2002) as indicators of level of development in 1500, we confirm a reversal … strong or stronger for three alternative measures of early development, namely years since transition to agriculture, state …

of its economic development. The hypothesis advanced and empirically examined in this paper suggests that there are … establish a highly statistically significant and robust non-monotonic effect of genetic diversity on development outcomes in the … pre-colonial era. Contrary to theories that reject a possible role for human genetics in influencing economic development …