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Institutions, inequality and development / Maria Ziegler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Göttinger Studien zur Entwicklungsökonomik ; 31.Publication details: Frankfurt : Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 202 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3653005760
  • 9783653005769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Institutions, inequality and development.DDC classification:
  • 306.3
LOC classification:
  • HM821 .Z54 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Political Institutions and Human Development -- The Social Institutions and Gender Index -- Gender-Related Social Institutions and Development -- Gender-Related Social Institutions and Corruption -- Health Inequality in Bolivia.
Summary: The book focuses on the linkages between institutions, inequality and development. It analyzes formal political institutions, in particular the relationship between democracy and human development. It also centers on informal social institutions leading to the exclusion of population groups such as women and indigenous people. To measure these institutions in the case of gender inequality the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices are proposed and for the indigenous "disadvantage" the indigenous dummy is used. The dissertation shows that formal and informal institutions affect human development, the governance of a society and inequality.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-202).

Political Institutions and Human Development -- The Social Institutions and Gender Index -- Gender-Related Social Institutions and Development -- Gender-Related Social Institutions and Corruption -- Health Inequality in Bolivia.

The book focuses on the linkages between institutions, inequality and development. It analyzes formal political institutions, in particular the relationship between democracy and human development. It also centers on informal social institutions leading to the exclusion of population groups such as women and indigenous people. To measure these institutions in the case of gender inequality the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices are proposed and for the indigenous "disadvantage" the indigenous dummy is used. The dissertation shows that formal and informal institutions affect human development, the governance of a society and inequality.

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