Economic Development and Civil Society

Civil liberties and economic development

Skepticism prevails among a substantial number of economists over a possible connection between civil liberties and the level of economic activity. Until now, empirical research on economic growth has found mixed evidence on the influence of civil liberties. Disaggregation of the Freedom House Civil Liberties Index allows a fresh empirical look at the effect of human rights on long-term growth ...

Online Appendix for “Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone”

Table B1 presents results from a specification identical to the one presented in Table 2 of the paper using an alternative measure of the concentration of power. This measure is the number of times the family that has held the paramount chieftaincy most has done so (i.e., the maximum of the number of times any family has held the chieftaincy). The mean of this variable is 3.5. The results are v...

Society, Community and Economic Development

Studies of economic development and economic history have long been concerned with the relationship between the transparent and supposedly anonymous forces of markets, states and bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the particular local and national forms of social organization in which actors' daily lives are embedded. Economists are quite divided about these latter forces: for some, they are n...

democracy and civil society

since there are various views on the civil society, in this paper the writer first introduces two main views, a limited view and a broad view, explaining the concept based on these two views. the two views, formed by social and political theorists, are firmly grounded in political and social literature. to explain the concept, the writer introduces the indexes of the civil society, the most imp...

Capacity Development and Civil Society Organizations January 2011