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Institutions Count : Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development /

What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation's institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect...

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Autor principal: Portes, Alejandro, 1944- (Autor, Editor )
Otros Autores: Smith, Lori D., 1982-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Institutions and development: a conceptual reanalysis / Alejandro Portes -- The comparative study of institutions: the "institutional turn" in development studies / Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith -- Institutional change and development in Argentina / Alejandro Grimson, Ana Castellani, and Alexander Roig -- Institutional change and development in Chilean market society / Guillermo Wormald and Daniel Brieba -- The Colombian paradox: a thick institutionalist analysis / Cesar Rodríguez-Garavito -- Development opportunities: politics, the state, and institutions in the Dominican Republic in the twenty-first century / Wilfredo Lozano -- The uneven and paradoxical development of Mexico's institutions / Jose Luis Velasco -- Conclusion: The comparative analysis of the role of institutions in national development / Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith. 
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