Institutions Count: Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development

by Alejandro Portes (Author), Lori Smith (Author), Alejandro Portes (Author), Lori Smith (Author)

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  Paperback
  2012

  $28.82

  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 shows how real institutions affect national development.