Property Rights Reform and Development: A Critique of the Cross-National Regression Literature
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Property rights; Development; Pro-poor;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
- P14 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Property Rights
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2010-02-05 (Development)
- NEP-IPR-2010-02-05 (Intellectual Property Rights)
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