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economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation …
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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 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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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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strategy is linked to transnational territorial cooperation, especially through its third objective, aiming at inclusive growth … research tools of the TERCO Project, which stands for 'European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality …
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This study examines the repercussions of the 1979 Sandinista revolution on Nicaragua's economic growth trajectory … estimating the counterfactual gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth rate, assuming that the revolution did not take … place. By doing so, the study quantifies the extent to which the Sandinista revolution influenced the country's economic …
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This study examines the repercussions of the 1979 Sandinista revolution on Nicaragua's economic growth trajectory … estimating the counterfactual gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth rate, assuming that the revolution did not take … place. By doing so, the study quantifies the extent to which the Sandinista revolution influenced the country's economic …
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income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact …
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positive effects on the region's long-term development when compared to neighboring localities just outside its borders …
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colonial experience, and is believed to undermine development in the long run. I construct original measures of agricultural … institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … and IV estimates, no negative effect can be found for 1905 inequality on long-term development; (5) political inequality …
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