In recent years, the role of institutions for development has received considerable attention
from development researchers, policy makers and practitioners. This paper reviews the …

The 1960s and 70s were decades of solid growth rates for Latin America and the Caribbean
region as a whole. This changed in the 1980s, when the growth rate of output per capita fell …

The purpose of this paper is three-fold: to assess the extent to which the institutional
characteristics of governance can be captured with available data, to evaluate the ability of …

The objective of this article is to propose a new methodological approach to determine the
level of competitiveness of subnational territories (regions). To this end, the relationship …

Countries engaged actively in globalization have experienced phenomenal changes in
economic, social, cultural, political, and technological progress. Some countries have …

This study is a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the linkages between governance,
institutions, and regional infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and …

In this paper we revisit the institutions–growth nexus in developing countries including the
East Asian region. The region has in the past three decades not only achieved spectacular …

What explains the performance of external auditing agencies in emerging economies? How
relevant are they to improving fiscal governance and controlling corruption? What …

Este trabajo analiza los determinantes del crecimiento económico para una muestra de 95
países en el periodo 1960-1998. La hipótesis es que tales determinantes cambian entre …

The article is based on the thesis that institutional quality influences the economic
performance. From this point of view under certain circumstance the government policy is …