We review the theoretical and empirical literatures on the role of institutions on national development as a prelude to present a more rigorous and measurable definition of the concept and a methodology to study this relationship at the national and subnational levels. The existing research...

In summarizing the five Mexican cases studied for the Institutions and Development project, The case studies summarized here were conducted from 2005 to 2008, and this paper refers mainly to that period. Yet, whenever possible, information coming from published documents or statistical reports...

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...