TY  - GEN
T1  - Institutions count : their role and significance in Latin American development
A1  - Portes, Alejandro, 1944-
A2  - Portes, Alejandro, 1944-
A2  - Smith, Lori D., 1982-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn815651151
AB  - 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 th.
OP  - 221
CN  - HN110.5.A8 P665 2012
SN  - 9780520954069
SN  - 0520954068
SN  - 0520273540
SN  - 9780520273542
SN  - 1283543249
SN  - 9781283543248
SN  - 9786613855695
SN  - 6613855693
SN  - 9780520273535
SN  - 0520273532
KW  - Social institutions : Latin America.
KW  - Economic development : Social aspects : Latin America.
KW  - Public administration : Latin America.
KW  - Institutional economics.
KW  - Institutions sociales : Amérique latine.
KW  - Administration publique (Science) : Amérique latine.
KW  - Institutionnalisme.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Sociology : General.
KW  - Social institutions
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Institutional economics
KW  - Economic development : Social aspects
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Latin America
KW  - comparative study.
KW  - cultural studies.
KW  - historians.
KW  - human condition.
KW  - institutional roles.
KW  - latin america.
KW  - latin american nations.
KW  - latin american politics.
KW  - latin american scholars.
KW  - latin american studies.
KW  - methodological study.
KW  - national development.
KW  - national institutions.
KW  - nonfiction study.
KW  - political science.
KW  - postal systems.
KW  - public health services.
KW  - research methodology.
KW  - retrospective.
KW  - social sciences.
KW  - sociologists.
KW  - sociology.
KW  - stock exchanges.
KW  - textbooks.
KW  - theoretical framework.
ER  -