... whether the growth-effect of social capital is direct or indirect, and if it is indirect, can property rights be the link between social capital and growth. Design/methodology/approach The authors begin with testing the robustness of generalized trust variable in explaining the effect of social...

... agricultural productivity because land markets have the potential to transfer land from inefficient to efficient hands. One issue that surrounds the functioning of land markets in rural areas relates to property rights to land. The argument follows that where land rights are truncated or poorly defined, land...

... Neoliberalism Property rights Legal institutions In order to test this finding also for consolidated financial statements and different accounting standards, a first assessment on a random basis of the financial statements (2011) of 70 German companies and 30 British companies reporting according...

... and the social institution, particularly, relating to owning and transferring land; not only retains but also strengthens patriarchal and patrilineal traits (Banister, 2004 ; Bossen, 2005 ; Potts and Campbell, 2008 ; Sarvate, 2009). Gender Property rights Agricultural economies Social policy Feminism...

...Biman C. Prasad This paper discusses the institutionalists' economic thought and how they saw the role of property rights in economic development. It points out that the role of various institutions in the economic performance of many developing countries cannot be ignored. One of the important...

...K.C. Roy; C.A. Tisdell This paper examines the importance of property rights in women’s empowerment in rural India. Arguments justifying the need for granting property rights to women are presented and the distinction is made between legal (formal) and customary (informal) rights...

... in property rights are not natural but the result of man‐made institutions which would not in themselves be right and would not have the obligatory power in virtue of their rightness. As such they would not be morally binding. Society that systematically consigns whole classes to conditions of poverty...

.... 128). © MCB UP Limited 2000 Microeconomics Organizational behaviour Transaction costs Property rights Vertical integration The emergence of management as an essential, a distinct and a leading institution is a pivotal event in social history. Despite its crucial importance, its...

...Max Gillman This essay presents a theory of the State as derived from the writings of Coase, Stigler, and Smith. It argues that the state may find a role in (1) lowering the level of transactions costs; and (2) redistributing property rights given the level of non‐zero transactions costs...

... on the protection of private property rights and status rights. Although built on authority that is both antiquated and most closely associated with theology and philosophy, the positions, by focusing on rights that are the foundation on which modern economics are organized, are expressed in a way...

... and natural resources is reduced. This cannot happen in the absence of appropriate property rights of local communities and of rural women. In West Bengal as well as in the central Himalayan region in India it has been found that the disappearance of community control and restrictions on the user rights...

... of householders use the reticulated system to some extent, almost the same proportion regard the foreshore, which is public land, as an open access latrine. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Marine information Natural resources Pacific Rim Property rights Social responsibility Sustainable development...

... private property rights and the performance and prosperity of capitalism, de‐socialization of ownership was to become the backbone for market oriented reforms in post‐communist society. The absence of clearly defined property rights, their capricious enforcement, widespread cronyism and criminal activity...