Essays about: "institutional quality economic growth"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 44 essays containing the words institutional quality economic growth.

1. 21. Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa: An Assessment

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Lennart Hoedemakers; [2016]
   Keywords : New Institutional Economics; Africa; Economic Growth; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper assesses the extent to which cross country empirical data can be used to explain the impact of institutions on economic growth in Africa. It does so by first establishing a theoretical framework on economic growth, focusing particularly on New Institutional Economics, also assessing several other theories that seek to explain economic growth. READ MORE

3. 22. Income Inequality and Natural Resources

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Philipp Bergner; [2016]
   Keywords : Inequality; institutional quality; point resources; resource curse; SWIID; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The observation that countries highly endowed with natural resources often struggle with undesirable economic (e.g. low growth) and social problems has produced a large body of literature on the so-called resource curse over the last decades. READ MORE

4. 23. History with Some Evidence: Inequality Levels of Argentina and Australia at the Turn of the 20th Century

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Bruno Carvalho Lopes Rogerio; [2016]
   Keywords : Inequality; economic growth; income levels; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Institutional theory of economic growth argues that the long-term development of a country is greatly influenced by quality of its institutions. On its turn, good institutions would form more naturally in countries with better income distributions than more unequal countries. READ MORE

5. 24. Good Governance Institutions and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Patrik Westraeus; [2016]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Development paradigms changes over time. The latest buzzword ‘good governance’ has endured for more than a decade. Contemporary literature maintains the need for institutions such as good governance as a means of achieving economic growth. READ MORE

6. 25. What helps countries avoid the middle-income trap? A study of policy and institutional determinants

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jirutsun Pramualsilp; [2015]
   Keywords : upper-middle income countries; technology policies; education; institutions; economic growth; middle-income trap; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The essay identifies the factors that help countries avoid the middle-income trap. We study the effect of institutional indicators, and the educational and technological policy variables on the income growth of the middle-income countries, with the focus on the upper-middle income countries; using the Cross-section OLS estimation and the Fixed-Effects panel estimation. READ MORE