Economic Growth and Development
such as an independent judiciary or political parties to make them work. In Sub-Saharan Africa tribal collective property rights ...
more developed countries which may save the effort of inventing them from scratch. Legislation to establish a commission to regu ...
transparent process and the land then subject to a compulsory fixed-price government purchase order. In developing countries lan ...
Chinese state has intervened brutally to support the process. China’s Ministry of Public Security acknowledges that 87,000 publi ...
Good institutions reduce the transaction costs associated with economic exchange. Property rights impact on the efficiency of e ...
Chapter 11 Geography and Economic Resources It seems obvious that where a country is located, its neighbours, its weather and it ...
more competition on world markets and access to new technologies. These links are shown in Figure 11.1. Geography: definitions G ...
The statistics of geography: income and growth Though there is lots of empirical evidence linking geography to levels of income ...
important than tropical location. Bloom et al. (1998) examine data for 77 African and non-African countries from 1965 to 1990 an ...
fraction of the population within 100 km of the coast which rises to 67 per cent if ocean-navigable river systems are included, ...
be passed on to foreign consumers. African countries are generally small suppliers of agricultural products whose prices are fix ...
geography dating back to 11,000 BCE has had a profound influence on growth and development since the sixteenth century. Diamond ...
China to peninsular Malaysia, New Guinea food production into Australia or from Mexico northward to the US. Diamond further argu ...
slaves in 1750, but Jamaica is one of the very few countries to sustain a demo- cratic political system since independence (in 1 ...
fall growth decline more than cancels out prior growth economic (Collier, 2007). There are important parallels for today. Chapte ...
explain why after around 1500 Eurasia conquered Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians and Sub-Saharan Africans, rather than v ...
experiment in building a society: notably the Greek peninsula, Italy, the Iberian peninsula, Denmark, Norway/Sweden. Europe had ...
economic growth by reducing the productivity of labour) but cholera is also a disease of poverty and the poor sanitation charact ...
weight, due to prematurity and intra-uterine growth retardation. Low birth weight is associated with health problems much later ...
Geography and agricultural output Most Africans live in sub-humid or arid tropics without rivers and the alluvial plains that pe ...
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