Institutions, Inequality And Development

ISBN: 9783631605417 出版年：2011 页码：228 Ziegler Maria Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This book contributes to the understanding of the linkages between institutions, inequality and development. It investigates formal political institutions and asks whether democracy leads to higher levels of health and education. The author centers on the measurement of informal social institutions related to gender inequality and propose the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices. The study uses the new measures in an empirical analysis of fertility, child mortality, female education and governance. It focuses on the linkage between gender-related social institutions and corruption, and finally analyzes the role of ethnic origin for health inequality in Bolivia.