Law & Development Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14292172008-07-15T09:59:07-04:00A Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePad1202768http://www.feedburner.comNew survey paper on finance and growthtag:typepad.com,2003:post-527224342008-07-15T09:59:07-04:002008-07-15T09:59:07-04:00Daniel Sokol at Florida has just brought this paper to my attention. Thanks! http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1143666 TGlawdev bloggerOchoa on the Ruggie Reporttag:typepad.com,2003:post-526061082008-07-12T21:20:38-04:002008-07-12T21:20:46-04:00Christy Ochoa, of the University of Indiana at Bloomington, has a nice piece on the Ruggie report in the latest ASIL Insights, available here.lawdev bloggerResource curse in US statestag:typepad.com,2003:post-525827442008-07-12T09:02:27-04:002008-07-12T09:06:47-04:00Here is an interesting article I just came across. The cite is Comparative Politics 41: 477-514 (2008). Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development and the Resource Curse in U.S. States Ellis Goldberg, Erik Wibbels and Eric Mvukiyehe Abstract: The work...lawdev bloggerMongolia election violence-the resource curse strikes again?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-525514722008-07-11T12:23:15-04:002008-07-11T12:23:26-04:00Even the New York Times noticed the election violence in Mongolia, one of my favorite places and a country about which I wrote several articles in the 1990s. After the ruling MPRP won a majority of seats in the recent...lawdev bloggerWTO Public Forum Reporttag:typepad.com,2003:post-520197522008-06-29T01:45:55-04:002008-06-29T01:46:03-04:00WTO Public Forum 2007 Report "How Can the WTO Help Harness Globalization?" summarizes the views and issues expressed during last year's WTO Public Forum. Topics for debate included the challenges presented by globalisation, the need for a coherent multilateral trading...lawdev bloggerupcoming book by Bhagwatitag:typepad.com,2003:post-518365482008-06-25T09:09:10-04:002008-06-25T09:09:18-04:00Jagdish Bhagwati's Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade (Oxford UP) will be released next month. Excerpt from the blurb: Writing with his customary wit, panache, and elegance, Bhagwati documents the growth of these PTAs, the...lawdev bloggerArrunada on Doing Business, reduxtag:typepad.com,2003:post-515203662008-06-18T12:40:48-04:002008-06-18T12:41:13-04:00Benito Arrunada has a new working paper here on the Doing Business project, continuing his argument that it has distorted policy priorities in the business start-up area. The internal World Bank report, though critical of some aspects of Doing Business,...lawdev bloggerNew paper by Fandltag:typepad.com,2003:post-514412742008-06-17T01:51:42-04:002008-06-17T01:51:50-04:00Kevin Fandl of American University and George Mason has posted a new paper to SSRN on The Role of Informal Legal Institutions in Economic Development, available here. The abstract follows: The purveyance of the rule of law in developing countries...lawdev bloggerWorld Bank report on Doing Businesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-513932502008-06-16T09:02:43-04:002008-06-16T09:05:05-04:00We have frequently commented in this space on the Doing Business methodology used by the World Bank. The World Bank Independent Evaluation Group's report on the Doing Business reports is available here. The report seems to take some of the...lawdev bloggerCommission on Legal Empowerment of the Poortag:typepad.com,2003:post-513723642008-06-15T17:24:22-04:002008-06-15T17:24:29-04:00The United Nations Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor has released its report here. This is the culmination in a trend in law and development thinking to link povery reduction with legal reform. I have to admit to some...lawdev bloggerWhere does the money go?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-511641582008-06-10T20:30:46-04:002008-06-10T20:30:53-04:00Where does foreign aid go? here is a new article on the topic by William Easterly and Tobias Pfutze. Journal of Economic Perspectives; Spring2008, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p29-52 Abstract:This paper does not address the issue of aid effectiveness-that is,...lawdev bloggerNew report from Commission on Growth and Developmenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-510628962008-06-08T22:55:18-04:002008-06-08T22:56:12-04:00The Commission on Growth and Development, a high-level tripartite commission, has released its final report, The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development which looks at how developing countries can achieve fast sustained and equitable growth. Details on...lawdev bloggerLSA schedule for CRN on Law and Developmenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-499116162008-05-15T11:43:59-04:002008-05-15T11:44:07-04:00The CRN on the Rule of Law, State-Building and Transition will sponsor several panels at the upcoming Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Montreal. Panel descriptions follow: Session 1104: Sharia and National Law: Between Tradition, Politics and the Rule...lawdev bloggerNew piece by Davis and Trebilcoktag:typepad.com,2003:post-495178142008-05-07T07:49:34-04:002008-05-07T07:49:42-04:00"The Relationship between Law and Development: Optimists Versus Skeptics" American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2009 KEVIN E. DAVIS, New York University School of Law Email: ked2@nyu.edu MICHAEL J. TREBILCOCK, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law...lawdev bloggerNew paper by Coletag:typepad.com,2003:post-489573082008-04-24T11:23:24-04:002008-04-24T11:23:31-04:00Dan Cole of Indiana-Indianapolis has just posted a new paper on SSRN: "Institutions Matter! Why the Herder Problem is Not a Prisoner's Dilemma" DANIEL H. COLE, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Email: dancole@iupui.edu In the game theory literature,...lawdev blogger