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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetto topico: Economic development; Economic policy
• Soggetto non controllato: ECONOMICS/Trade & Development; ECONOMICS/Finance
• Altri autori: GradsteinMark KonradKai Andreas
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Institutions and norms in economic development
• ISBN: 0-262-30721-9; 1-282-09898-5; 9786612098987; 0-262-27419-1; 1-4294-8062-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778151003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: CESifo seminar series.