The Handbook of Economic Development and Institutions / / ed. by Jean-Marie Baland, Thierry Verdier, Jean-Philippe Platteau, François Bourguignon.

The definitive reference on the most current economics of development and institutions The essential role that institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognized across the social sciences, including in economics. Academic and policy interest in this subject has never b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (768 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONS
  • PART 1. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, CLIENTELISM, AND INEQUALITY
  • 1. At the Intersection: A Review of Institutions in Economic Development
  • 2. Clientelistic Politics and Economic Development: An Overview
  • 3. Formal Institutions and Development in Low-Income Countries: Positive and Normative Theory
  • 4. Group Inequality in Democracies: Lessons from Cross-National Experiences
  • 5. Conflict and Development
  • PART 2. INSTITUTIONS AND GROWTH
  • 6. Institutions, Development, and Growth: Where Does Evidence Stand?
  • 7. Finance, Institutions, and Development: Literature Survey and Research Agenda
  • PART 3. TRADE, AID, AND MIGRATION
  • 8. Trade-Related Institutions and Development
  • 9. Foreign Aid and Governance: A Survey
  • 10. Migration, Institutions, and Development
  • PART 4. FAMILIES, GENDER, AND CULTURE
  • 11. Formal and Informal Market Institutions: Embeddedness Revisited
  • 12. Culture, Institutions, and Development
  • 13. The Dynamics of Family Systems: Lessons from Past and Present Times
  • 14. Gender Institutions and Economic Development
  • PART 5. SECTORAL APPROACHES
  • 15. Firms, Workers, and Labor Markets
  • 16. Institutions, Firm Financing, and Growth
  • 17. Institutions for Infrastructure in Developing Countries: What we know . . . and the lot we still need to know
  • 18. Education, Institutions, and Development
  • 19. Media as a Tool for Institutional Change in Development
  • 20. Institutions, the Environment, and Development
  • Index