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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816573703321

Titolo

Institutions and norms in economic development / / edited by Mark Gradstein and Kai A. Konrad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

0-262-30721-9

1-282-09898-5

9786612098987

0-262-27419-1

1-4294-8062-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Altri autori (Persone)

GradsteinMark

KonradKai Andreas

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Economic development

Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Future7 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.