Informal institutions — family and kinship structures,traditions, and social norms — not only matter for development, but they are often decisive factors in shaping policy outcomes in environments of weak states and poor governance structures. Based on concrete examples in the areas of...

Sustainable development requires well co-ordinated and functioning formal and informal institutions. In developing countries, courts, regulations and formal conventions are often observed in the breach or fail to function. By default, informal institutions – tradition, culture, family...

Les institutions informelles – traditions, normes sociales, pratiques religieuses…– peuvent tantôt favoriser développement, tantôt lui faire obstacle. Tout effort pour faciliter le changement de ces institutions nécessite de prendre la pleine mesure des réalités locales et...

Les institutions informelles – traditions, normes sociales, pratiques religieuses…– peuvent tantôt favoriser développement, tantôt lui faire obstacle. Tout effort pour faciliter le changement de ces institutions nécessite de prendre la pleine mesure des réalités locales et...

Sustainable development requires well co-ordinated and functioning formal and informal institutions. In developing countries, courts, regulations and formal conventions are often observed in the breach or fail to function. By default, informal institutions – tradition, culture, family...