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CIAO DATE: 4/5/2007

Social Cohesion, Institutions

William Easterly, Jozef Ritzen, Michael Woolcock

August 2006

Center for Global Development

Abstract

We present evidence that measures of “social cohesion,” such as income inequality and ethnic fractionalization, endogenously determine institutional quality, which in turn casually determines growth.

 

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