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UNINA9910816573703321 |
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Titolo |
Institutions and norms in economic development / / edited by Mark Gradstein and Kai A. Konrad |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-30721-9 |
1-282-09898-5 |
9786612098987 |
0-262-27419-1 |
1-4294-8062-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GradsteinMark |
KonradKai Andreas |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development |
Economic policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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