ISBN:
9781784710415
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 v)
,
cm
Series Statement:
Elgar research reviews in economics
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Institutions and governance in developing countries
Keywords:
Public institutions
;
Public administration
;
Economic development
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This comprehensive Research Review discusses seminal contributions by leading scholars on institutions and governance in developing countries. It analyses key theoretical perspectives on institutions and the empirical evidence of the role of institutions in economic development. Further, it explores the literature with particular focus on important contributions in governance, the historical evidence on why institutions matter, formal and informal institutions and the key policy issues
Abstract:
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi (2004), 'Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002', World Bank Economic Review, 18 (2) 253-87 -- David Booth (2011), 'Aid, Institutions and Governance: What Have We Learned?', Development Policy Review, 29 (S1), S5-S26 -- Mushtaq H. Khan (2005), 'Markets, States and Democracy: Patron- Client Networks and the Case for Democracy in Developing Countries', Democratization, 12 (5), 704-24 -- Avinash Dixit (2009), 'Governance Institutions and Economic Activity', American Economic Review, 99 (1), March, 5-24 -- Timothy Besley (1995), 'Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana', Journal of Political Economy, 103 (5), October, 903-37 -- Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess (2004), 'Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119 (1), February, 91-134 -- Kunal Sen and Dirk Willem Te Velde (2009), 'State Business Relations and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa', Journal of Development Studies, 45 (8), September, 1267-83 -- Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2002), 'The Regulation of Entry', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVII (1), February, 1-37 -- Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'Courts', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (2), May, 453-517 -- Avner Greif (1993), 'Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition', American Economic Review, 83 (3), June, 525-48 -- Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff (2002), 'Courts and Relational Contracts', Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 18 (1), 221-77 -- Liesbet Steer and Kunal Sen (2010), 'Formal and Informal Institutions in a Transition Economy: The Case of Vietnam', World Development, 38 (11), 1603-15 -- Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten (2001), 'Property Rights in a Flea Market Economy', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 49 (2), January, 229-67 -- William Easterly (2008), 'Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?', American Economic Review, 98 (2), May, 95-9 -- Dani Rodrik (2008), 'Second-Best Institutions', American Economic Review, 98 (2), May, 100-104 -- Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian (2007), 'Does Aid Affect Governance?', American Economic Review, 97 (2), May, 322-27 -- Nancy Birdsall (2007), 'Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions and the Missing Middle in Africa', Development Policy Review, 25 (5), 575-98 -- Ha-Joon Chang (2011), 'Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy and History', Journal of Institutional Economics, 7 (4), 473-98
Abstract:
Recommended readings (Machine generated): Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson and J. Robinson (2001), 'The colonial origins of comparative development', American Economic Review, 91 (5), 1369-401. -- Acemoglu, D. (2009), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. -- Grindle, M. (2011), 'Good enough governance revisited', Development Policy Review, 25 (5), September, 533-74. -- Hickey, S. (2013, forthcoming), 'Thinking about the politics of inclusive development: towards a relational approach', Working Paper No. 1, Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, available at: http://www.effective-states.org/publications/workingpapers/ (accessed 5 June 2013). -- Leftwich, A. (2006), 'What are institutions?', IPPG Briefing Paper 1, available at: http://www.ippg.org.uk/publications.html (accessed 5 June 2013). -- Leftwich, A. (2007), 'The political approach to institutional formation, maintenance and change', IPPG Discussion Paper 14, available at: http://www.ippg.org.uk/papers/dp14.pdf (accessed 5 June 2013). -- Leftwich, A. and K. Sen (2010), 'Beyond institutions: institutions and organisations in the politics and economics of poverty reduction - a thematic synthesis of research evidence', Synthesis Report, available at: www.ippg.org.uk (accessed 5 June 2013). -- Mahoney, J. and K. Thelen (2010), Explaining Institutional Change Ambiguity, Agency, and Power, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. -- McMillan, J. (2002), Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets, New York: W.W. Norton. -- Sachs, J. (2003), 'Institutions don't rule: direct effects of geography on per capita income', NBER Working Paper No. 9490. -- North, D.C. (1990), Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -- Te Velde, D.W. (2012), 'Measuring State-business relations in Sub-Saharan Africa', in K. Sen (ed.), State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India, London: Routledge. -- World Bank (1991), 'Managing development: the governance dimension', World Bank Discussion Paper 34899, Washington, DC: World Bank. -- World Bank (2002), 'Building institutions for markets', World Development Report 2002, Washington, DC: World Bank. -- Douglass C. North (1991), 'Institutions', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (1), Winter, 97-112 -- Oliver E. Williamson (2000), 'The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead', Journal of Economic Literature, XXXVIII (3), September, 595-613 -- Elinor Ostrom (1986), 'An Agenda for the Study of Institutions', Public Choice, 48 (1), 3-25 -- Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2008), 'Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions', American Economic Review, 98 (1), March, 267-93 -- Masahiko Aoki (2007), 'Endogenizing Institutions and Institutional Changes', Journal of Institutional Economics, 3 (1), 1-31 -- Adam Przeworski (2004), 'Institutions Matter?', Government and Opposition, 39 (4), Autumn, 527-40
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Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'The New Comparative Economics', Journal of Comparative Economics, 31 (4), 595-619 -- Ha-Joon Chang (2002), 'Breaking the Mould: An Institutionalist Political Economy Alternative to the Neo-Liberal Theory of the Market and the State', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26, 539-59 -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2006), 'What Are Institutions?', Journal of Economic Issues, XL (1), March, 1-25 -- Pranab Bardhan (2005), 'Institutions Matter, But Which Ones?', Economics of Transition, 13 (3), 499-532 -- Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson (2002), 'Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117 (4), November, 1231-94 -- Edward L. Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2004), 'Do Institutions Cause Growth?', Journal of Economic Growth, 9 (3), September, 271-303 -- Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones (1999), 'Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others?', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114 (1), February, 83-116 -- Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer (1995), 'Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Measures', Economics and Politics, 7 (3), November, 207-27 -- Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian and Francesco Trebbi (2004), 'Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development', Journal of Economic Growth, 9 (2), June, 131-65 -- Janine Aron (2000), 'Growth and Institutions: A Review of the Evidence', World Bank Research Observer, 15 (1), February, 99-135 -- Alberto Chong and César Calderón (2000), 'Institutional Quality and Poverty Measures in a Cross-Section of Countries', Economics of Governance, 1, 123-35 -- Jean-Philippe Platteau (2009), 'Institutional Obstacles to African Economic Development: State, Ethnicity, and Custom', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71 (3), September, 669-89 -- Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson (2005), 'The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth', American Economic Review, 95 (3), June, 546-79 -- Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer (2005), 'History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India', American Economic Review, 95 (4), September, 1190-213 -- Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer (2002), 'Legal Origins', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117 (4), November, 1193-229 -- Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine (2003), 'Law and Finance: Why Does Legal Origin Matter?', Journal of Comparative Economics, 31 (4), 653-75 -- Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Stanley L. Engerman (2000), 'History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14 (3), Summer, 217-32 -- Peter Evans (2004), 'Development as Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping and the Potentials of Deliberation', Studies in Comparative International Development, 38 (4), Winter, 30-52 -- Merilee S. Grindle (2004), 'Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries', Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, 17 (4), October, 525-48
Note:
The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings
DOI:
10.4337/9781784710415
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