"The essential role that institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognized across the social sciences, including in economics. Academic and policy interest in this subject has never been higher. The Handbook of Economic Development and Institutions is the first to bring together in one single volume the most cutting-edge work in this area by the best-known international economists. The volume's editors, themselves leading scholars in the discipline, provide a comprehensive introduction, and the stellar contributors offer up-to-date analysis into institutional change and its interactions with the dynamics of economic development. This book focuses on three critical issues: the definitions of institutions in order to argue for a causal link to development, the complex interplay between formal and informal institutions, and the evolution and coevolution of institutions and their interactions with the political economy of development. Topics examined include the relationship between institutions and growth, educational systems, the role of the media, and the intersection between traditional systems of patronage and political institutions"--Publisher's description.

• Cover
• Contents
• Contributors
• Economic Development and Institutions: An Introduction
• PART 1. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, CLIENTELISM, AND INEQUALITY
  • 1. At the Intersection: A Review of Institutions in Economic Development
  • 2. Clientelistic Politics and Economic Development: An Overview
  • 3. Formal Institutions and Development in Low-Income Countries: Positive and Normative Theory
  • 4. Group Inequality in Democracies: Lessons from Cross-National Experiences
  • 5. Conflict and Development
• PART 2. INSTITUTIONS AND GROWTH
  • 6. Institutions, Development, and Growth: Where Does Evidence Stand?
  • 7. Finance, Institutions, and Development: Literature Survey and Research Agenda
• PART 3. TRADE, AID, AND MIGRATION
  • 8. Trade-Related Institutions and Development
  • 9. Foreign Aid and Governance: A Survey
  • 10. Migration, Institutions, and Development
• PART 4. FAMILIES, GENDER, AND CULTURE
  • 11. Formal and Informal Market Institutions: Embeddedness Revisited
  • 12. Culture, Institutions, and Development
  • 13. The Dynamics of Family Systems: Lessons from Past and Present Times
  • 14. Gender Institutions and Economic Development
• PART 5. SECTORAL APPROACHES
  • 15. Firms, Workers, and Labor Markets
  • 16. Institutions, Firm Financing, and Growth
  • 17. Institutions for Infrastructure in Developing Countries: What we know . . . and the lot we still need to know
  • 18. Education, Institutions, and Development
  • 19. Media as a Tool for Institutional Change in Development
  • 20. Institutions, the Environment, and Development
• Index