Institutions and Economic Performance By (2007)
Those who analyze political institutions often employ broad labels. They refer to democracy or authoritarianism; presidential or parliamentary governments; or to systems of plurality or proportional...
Institutions and Development (2006)
In late-century Africa, domestic reformers and the international community prescribed political reform as a means for securing policy reform. They sought to put an end to single party and military...
Institutions and Development (2006)
In late-century Africa, domestic reformers and the international community prescribed political reform as a means for securing policy reform. They sought to put an end to single party and military...
Institutions and Development (2006)
In late-century Africa, domestic reformers and the international community prescribed political reform as a means for securing policy reform. They sought to put an end to single party and military...
Determinants of the rural exodus in Zambia (2003)
Bates, Robert H.;, Bennett, Bruce W.
Facteurs déterminants de l'exode rural en Zambie: étude des migrations entre les recensements, 1963-1969 .- Utilisation de modèles mathématiques probabilistes en démographie sociale. Les...
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa (2003)
Nkurunziza, Janvier D., Bates, Robert H.
Abstract The purposes of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called "African dummy;" (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows...
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa (2003)
Nkurunziza, Janvier D., Bates, Robert H.
Abstract The purposes of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called "African dummy;" (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows...
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa (2003)
Nkurunziza, Janvier D., Bates, Robert H.
Abstract The purposes of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called "African dummy;" (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows...
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa (2003)
Nkurunziza, Janvier D., Bates, Robert H.
Abstract The purposes of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called "African dummy;" (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows...
Analytic Narratives Revisited (2000)
Bates, Robert H., Levi, Margaret., Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent., Weingast, Barry R.
Social Science History - Volume 24, Number 4, Winter 2000
Framework Paper on the Political Economy of African Growth (1999)
Robert Bates Shantayanan, Robert H. Bates, Shantayanan Devarajan
Introduction Two incontrovertible facts from the last quarter century are that African economies grew very slowly; and that African governments adopted poor economic policies. In exploring the link...
Framework Paper on the Political Economy of African Growth (1999)
Robert H. Bates, Shantayanan Devarajan
Introduction The literature on growth and development has long stressed regional differences and the role of politics. Just as discussions of East Asia's rapid growth emphasized the economic...
Esta obra es el resultado de un estudio colectivo en Ciencias Sociales que desarrolla una teoría política y social la cual es combinada con métodos de análisis empíricos para casos históricos...
Analytic Narratives / R.H. Bates... [et al.]. (1998)
Esta obra es el resultado de un estudio colectivo en ciencias sociales que desarrolla una teoría política y social la cual es combinada con métodos de análisis empíricos para casos históricos...
The Politics and Economics of Policy Reform in Zambia (1995)
Bates, Robert H., Collier, Paul
Many African governments have now liberalized their economies, but investor surveys show that there is often considerable fear of policy reversal. This paper investigates the politics and economics...
"Sponsored by the Foreign Area Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies."
Thesis--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969.
Determinants of the Rural Exodus in Zambia : A Study of Inter-Censal Migration, 1963-1969.
Robert H. Bates, Bruce W. Bennett
BATES BENNETT Facteurs déterminants de exode rural en Zambie étude des migrations entre les recensements Utilisation de modèles mathé matiques probabilistes en démographie sociale Les équa...
Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa
Bates, Robert H., Coatsworth, John H., Williamson, Jeffrey G.
Africa and Latin America secured independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America by the 1820s and most of Africa by 1960. Despite the distance in time and...
On The Politics of Property Rights by Haber, Razo, and Maurer
Stephen Haber et al. explore economic growth in key sectors of the Mexican economy, 1876-1929, an era of political instability and (1914-17) civil war. The authors demonstrate that economic growth...
Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H, Coatsworth, John H, Williamson, Jeffrey G
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time...
Political Competition in Weak States
Eliana La Ferrara, Robert H. Bates
In the developing areas, politics is often undemocratic, states lack a monopoly over violence, and politicians play upon cultural identities. To analyze politics in such settings, we develop a model...
Political Predation and Economic Development
Azam, Jean-Paul, Bates, Robert H, Biais, Bruno
Economic growth occurs as resources are reallocated from the traditional sector to the more productive modern sector. Yet, the latter is more vulnerable to political predation. Hence, political risk...
Risk and Trade Regimes: Another Exploration.
Bates, Robert H, Brock, Philip L, Tiefenthaler, Jill
An analysis of a small sample of countries shows that the higher the level of terms-of-trade risk that a nation faces in international markets, the more likely it is to increase barriers. The...
In late-century Africa, domestic reformers and the international community prescribed political reform as a means for securing policy reform. They sought to put an end to single party and military...
Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Robert H. Bates, John H. Coatsworth, Jeffrey G. Williamson
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time...
Ethnicity, Capital Formation, and Conflict
Ethnicity plays an ambiguous role in the great transformation. On the one hand, ethnicity creates: by providing incentives that organize the flow of resources across generations, it provides the...
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Jagdish Bhagwati, Angus Deaton, Nicholas Stern
With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global...
Political Economy of Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa
Bates, Robert H., Block, Steven
This paper uses new data on agricultural policy interventions to examine the political economy of agricultural trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Historically, African governments have...
Introduction to Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade
Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open-Economy Politics, Robert Bates explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse...
The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000
Ndulu,Benno J., O'Connell,Stephen A., Azam,Jean-Paul, Bates,Robert H., Fosu Augustin K., ...
The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000
Ndulu,Benno J., O'Connell,Stephen A., Bates,Robert H., Collier,Paul, Soludo Chukwuma C.
The period from 1960 to 2000 was one of remarkable growth and transformation in the world economy. Why did most of Sub-Saharan Africa fail to develop over this period? Why did a few small African...