Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Institutions Count : Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development on EtoBox?

Institutions Count : Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development by Portes, Alejandro (editor);Smith, Lori D. (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Institutions Count : Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development about?

What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation’s institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect national development. It seeks to examine and deepen this insight through a systematic study of institutions in five Latin American countries and how they differ within and across nations. Postal systems, stock exchanges, public health services and others were included in the sample, all studied with the same methodology. The country chapters present detailed results of this empirical exercise for each individual country. The introductory chapters present the theoretical framework and research methodology for the full study. The summary results of this ambitious study presented in the concluding chapter draw comparisons across countries and discuss what these results mean for national development in Latin America.

Who reads Institutions Count : Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Portes, Alejandro (editor);Smith, Lori D. (editor)
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781283543248
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Sociology, Economics, Political Science

More by Portes, Alejandro (editor);Smith, Lori D. (editor)

Browse all works by Portes, Alejandro (editor);Smith, Lori D. (editor)

Similar books