Formal and Informal Institutions and Development

Casson, Mark; Giusta, Marina Della; Kambhampati, Uma

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.008

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“…Institutions include formal and informal rules that control behavior. Formal rules are written rules established by the state, whereas the informal rules are the unwritten norms and culture but regulate the social and economic life (Casson et al 2010). The community of Semende ethnical group has institutions for their rice farming system.…”

Section: Methods Case Study and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditional Institution for Forest Conservation within a Changing Community: Insight from the Case of Upland South Sumatra

Martin¹,

Suharjito

Darusman

et al. 2016

komunitas

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Referring to the studies on the success of community forestry, the proponents suggest reducing the influence of the state to the people who maintain traditional institutions in forest management. However, knowledge about the interaction of formal and informal institutions in the context of changing smallholder farmers is still not fully understood. Through a phenomenological approach assessing the differences of forest conserving institutions'performance across villages in Semende, South Sumatra, it is analyzed the process of how traditional institutions can survive or collapse. The main finding shows that traditional institutions gained support and legitimacy from government's formal institutions to enforce the rules are able to survive until now. The key factor determining the success or failure of traditional institutions is the structure of community's authority; whether it is based on inherited knowledge or not. It is proposed a new hypothesis for the concept of local institutions that successfully manage natural resources.

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Section: Methods Case Study and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditional Institution for Forest Conservation within a Changing Community: Insight from the Case of Upland South Sumatra

Martin¹,

Suharjito

Darusman

et al. 2016

komunitas

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“…Only with the influence of government intervention, environmental regulation, technology diffusion and other factors is EKC likely to appear as an inverted U-shaped curve [48]. In addition, government environmental policies impact the environment-income relations [49].…”

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Impact of Energy Consumption on Air Quality in Jiangsu Province of China

Zhong

Yin

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Air quality has become an important sustainability concern for China's highly developed economic regions. Taking Jiangsu Province as a case, this study investigates the effect of energy consumption on air quality when both considering and not considering control variables, such as industrial structure, energy consumption structure and energy efficiency from 2006 to 2015 and further explores the influence of the related policies on air quality and the relationship between energy consumption and air quality. One important finding is that the relationship between energy consumption and the air quality index of Jiangsu Province shows a U-shaped curve and it is now in the increasing part of the curve, which reveals the effectiveness of controlling energy consumption in improving air quality. Another important finding is that, when considering the effect of related polices, there is still a U-shaped curve relationship between energy consumption and air quality index, with the opening of curve becoming bigger and the influence of energy consumption on air quality becoming more obvious. Moreover, although air quality is improved whether considering policies separately or together, the effect of combined policies is better than is the effect of a separate policy. This not only reflects the effectiveness of related polices but also shows the importance of policy coordination. Furthermore, a 1% optimization of industrial structure inhibits air quality index by 0.0054%, while the relationship of energy efficiency and energy consumption structure with air quality is inconsistent with theoretical analysis. This implies that, in practice, there is still room for improvement in both energy saving and emission reduction and even in air quality improvement. This study may help the stakeholders, whether from Jiangsu Province, other provinces in China or other countries at the global level, identify the impacts of energy consumption on air quality and formulate effective energy saving and air quality improvement policies in conjunction with their economic characteristics.

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“…However, this action can be facilitated by the improvement of institutional quality at the country level. In other words, country's Casson et al, 2010) indicate that the "institutional quality might cause poor countries and people to stay poor". Acemoglu (2001cited in Cerra et al, 2008) argues that the poor institutions rather than poor macroeconomic policies are the main reason for the slow economic development.…”

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Institutional Quality and Illicit Capital Outflow: A Comparative Analysis of the Eastern European Countries

Andriani¹,

Zajaczkowska²

2017

JEPF

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Formal and Informal Institutions and Development

Cited by 186 publications

References 27 publications

Traditional Institution for Forest Conservation within a Changing Community: Insight from the Case of Upland South Sumatra

Traditional Institution for Forest Conservation within a Changing Community: Insight from the Case of Upland South Sumatra

Impact of Energy Consumption on Air Quality in Jiangsu Province of China

Institutional Quality and Illicit Capital Outflow: A Comparative Analysis of the Eastern European Countries

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