[PDF] Top 20 Colonial Origins and Comparative Development: Institutions Matter

... Technological diffusion is the process by which innovations (new products, processes or management methods) spread within and across economies. According to Boulhol, technological progress is not independent from other ... See full document

... of comparative development driven by large persistent ...economic development observed after the Great Discoveries for both the colonies and the ... See full document

... comparative perspectives on food security improvements. Such a study can be valuable for Asian countries to learn from each other. Country studies included in this book are Bangladesh, the People’s Republic of ... See full document

... financial development variable (DCB) in the MENA countries reduces doubtful loans besides, the institutional variables, such as the “rule of law”(rl) and “political stability” (PS) are positively and significantly ... See full document

... The most crucial question in the field of economic growth and development is that why some countries are much poorer than others. Traditional neoclassical growth models, following Solow (1956), Cass (1965) and ... See full document

... the colonial extractive booms, São Paulo’s colonial origins may have mattered in a different ...actual colonial institutions (as opposed to de facto institutions inferred ex post ... See full document

... Among recent studies, Bénassy-Quéré et all. work (2005) has explored the role which the institutional environment plays on FDI, by means of various econometric techniques (including instrumental variable regressions) 7 . ... See full document

... and development in ...that colonial and current levels of schooling are corre- ...of colonial missionary activity on schooling and religious ...arbitrary colonial borders on civil ...of ... See full document

... The intense ire that Odell and Bailey express in their bitter satires on Franklin are a register of their otherwise ineffable feelings of betrayal. It is easy to focus either on Franklin’s correspondence with his ... See full document

... should institutions be designed based on coalition forma- tion, as is often the case? For example, under a typical democratic constitution, a bill can only be passed by consent from a majority of ... See full document

... The Role of NUPW 1954-1990 From its origins, the communal organisation or plantation workers and the nurturing of English· Indian labour leaders by the colonial authorities inhibited the[r] ... See full document

... The ethnographic study entailed fieldwork covering selected rural and urban Ghanaian settings. The rural aspect involved spending a month and a week living in two different communities having little or no modern ... See full document

... other institutions, except insurance ...medical institutions, as they have already begun to offer this kind of service packages to customers, so reactions of insurance companies and legal authorities are ... See full document

... The ontological commitment of radical institutionalism is a strong one, amounting to a belief in institutions as actors be- sides individuals. Thus, the British Parliament is something more than the collection of ... See full document

... Evidence from a New Data Set Bolt, Jutta and Bezemer, Dirk University of Groningen, University of Groningen.. Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7029/ MPRA Paper No.[r] ... See full document

... this colonial history has manifested itself in our educational curricula, which have historically looked elsewhere (to Europe or the United States) to define who we are here in Canada (Tomkins, ... See full document

... the development and of disaster management policies in the Union Territory of Pondicherry from their origins in colonial-era policies to the significant re-orientation that followed the 2004 Asian ... See full document

... It was pointed out that all of the protest movements and attempts of the people to form their own political and economic institutions in opposition to colonial pow[r] ... See full document

... the development of tuberculosis in experimentally infected guinea pigs and, furthermore, to prevent the formation of any gross lesions in 40% of guinea pigs with preexisting infection ... See full document

... Sustainable Development Goals calls on countries to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for ...Sustainable Development Goal 4 includes seven ... See full document