Institutions and Norms in Economic Development.


Mark. Gradstein
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
Omfang
1 online resource (251 pages)
Utgave
1st ed.
Opplysninger
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- I Setting the Stage -- 1 The Development Puzzle -- II Governance Structure -- 2 Precolonial Centralization and Institutional Quality in Africa -- 3 Can Delegation Promote Fiscal Discipline in a Federation? Evidence from Fiscal Performance in the Indian States -- 4 The Political Economy of Education in Kenya -- III Institutional Quality, Property Rights, and Appropriation -- 5 A Theory of Corruption, Political Exclusion, and Windfalls -- 6 Explaining Conflict in Low-Income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future -- 7 Information and Incomplete Investor Protection -- IV Norms and Culture -- 8 Islamic Resurgence and Social Violence during the Indonesian Financial Crisis -- 9 Social Identity and Redistributive Politics -- Index.. - Experts address "the development puzzle"--unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries--and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.
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Dewey
ISBN
9780262274197
ISBN(galt)

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