Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

By T. Besley, Torsten Persson. 2011

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State and Development: The Need for a Reappraisal of the Current Literature† (2016, background): “This also provides incentives for incumbent political leaders to invest in the creation of fiscal and legal capacity, as suggested by Besley and Persson (2011)(11). Empirically, Osafo-Kwaako and Robinson (2013) cite evidence from a cross-cultural sample for a strong positive correlation between poli”
Food security and conflict: Empirical challenges and future opportunities for research and policy making on food security and conflict (2019, background): “…welfare effects of material aid in fragile and conflict-affected settings is broadly ambiguous, depending on factors such as the ‘cohesiveness’ of political institutions and the level of government capacity, while technical assistance if effective should reduce conflict (Besley and Persson, 2011).”
The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset (2014, background): “To these questions can be added increasing recent interest in issues related to taxation and inequality (Gemmell and Morrissey 2005), and the scale of international tax evasion and avoidance (Cobham 2005b; Global Financial Integrity 2008; Fuest and Riedel 2009; Reuter 2012), as well as more theoreti”
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach (2015, unknown): “…the role of state capacity in economic development, for example, Waldner (1999) and Kohli (2004) 2Relatedly, Evans and Rauch (2000), Acemoglu (2005), Besley and Persson (2009, 2011), and Dincecco and Katz (2013) document positive correlations between tax to GDP ratio or measures of meritocracy in…”
Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research (2013, background): “…describes states as serving a potentially large number of roles such as the development and maintenance of economic systems, the provision of public services to the population, and the administration of justice (Bersch, Praça, and Taylor 2017; Besley and Persson 2011; Rauch and Evans 2000).”
Education and Military Rivalry (2018, unknown): “More recently, an economic literature summarized in Besley and Persson (2011) considers theoretically investments in fiscal and legal capacity, and finds robust correlations between past wars and current state capacity in international panel data.”
Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development (2012, background): “Finally, our work has implications for the literature on state capacity that examines the origins and consequences of weak states’ inability to monopolize violence, collect taxes, and protect private property (e.g. Besley and Persson (2011)).”