Evaluating economic change

Economic Change in Morelos Households

classic Mesoamerican world system affect people's lives? And how did the actions of individuals in turn influence world-system processes? In this chapter I exarninc the linkages between large-scale world-system dynamics and individual households in an aftluent production zone of central Mexico. Morelos was an area of rich farmland whose grains and cotton-as well as bark paper, cotton textiles, ...

Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change

Some of the material here was originally presented at the World Bank Conference on Culture and Development, June 2002, as comments on Arjun Appadurai's paper (Appadurai (2002)). I am indebted to this paper for provoking some of the observations made here. I thank Dilip Mookherjee, Jonathan Morduch, Rohini Pande, and especially Srirupa Roy and Nilita Vachani for useful comments. I gratefully ack...

Institutional change in economic geography

This paper develops a rigorous concept of institutions to investigate the interrelationships between institutional and economic change from the perspective of economic geography. We view institutions neither as behavioural regularities nor as organisations or rules, but conceive institutions as stabilisations of mutual expectations and correlated interaction. The paper discusses how economic in...

Economic Development And Structural Change

Economic Development and Cultural Change

The past inflexibility of international banks in granting concessions (like elimination of surcharges, partial debt cancellations, lower interest rates, etc.) is linked by Ortiz to case-by-case strategy adopted in debt renegotiations. Within this context, the fear of setting precedents is seen as a major explanation in the banks' negotiating stance. To renew political commitment to the improvem...