Institutions, Inequality and Development

• मुख्य लेखक: Ziegler, Maria (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2012
• श्रृंखला: Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics
• विषय: Gender studies: women; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Health economics; Bolivia; Development; Gender; Health; Indigenous population; Inequality; Institutions; Ziegler
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The book focuses on the linkages between institutions, inequality and development. It analyzes formal political institutions, in particular the relationship between democracy and human development. It also centers on informal social institutions leading to the exclusion of population groups such as women and indigenous people. To measure these institutions in the case of gender inequality the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices are proposed and for the indigenous «disadvantage» the indigenous dummy is used. The dissertation shows that formal and informal institutions affect human development, the governance of a society and inequality.