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Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth

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William Easterly ()
Jozef Ritzan
Michael Woolcock

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We present evidence that measures of “social cohesion,” such as income inequality and ethnic fractionalization, endogenously determine institutional quality, which in turn casually determines growth.

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Paper provided by Center for Global Development in its series Working Papers with number 94.

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Date of creation: Aug 2006
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Keywords: Political institutions; social cohesion; poverty; economic policy;

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