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Open For Business? Institutions, Business Environment and Economic Development

Author(s)
Gillanders, Robert  
Whelan, Karl  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6372
Date Issued
2010-12
Date Available
2015-02-19T12:31:17Z
Abstract
Recent years have seen a significant focus in the literature on growth and development on the idea that legal and political institutions are the key determinant of economic development. The main finding of this paper is that the focus on the primacy of legal and political institutions may be misplaced and that business-friendly economic policies (proxied for here by the World Bank’s Doing Business indicator) are the key determinant of the level of income per capita. We find that a country’s Doing Business rank dominates a range of measures of legal and political institutional quality as an explanatory variable for income per capita. We also find the Doing Business rank to be a key explanatory variable for economic growth and that previous findings assigning a significant role to educational attainment are not robust to the inclusion of this new indicator in growth regressions.
Sponsorship
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Start Page
1
End Page
26
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP10/40
Subjects

Determinants of devel...

Economic policy

Economic growth

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http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/WP10_40.pdf
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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