How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay
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Gauri, VarunKeywords
AUTHORITYJUDICIAL POWER
INFORMAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
JUDGES
ADAT LAW
YOUTH
SANCTION
JUDGE
LIBERTIES
HUSBAND
DISADVANTAGED GROUPS
DEMOCRACY
HOMICIDE
INFORMAL SECTOR
POLITICAL CONDITIONS
FAMILIES
CIVIL SERVICE
CLAN LEADERS
INEQUALITIES
INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS
SOCIAL JUSTICE
INDIGENOUS WOMEN
ROLE OF LAW
JUSTICE SYSTEM
CRIME
RESIDENCES
OFFENDER
LEGAL PROTECTION
CUSTOMARY LAW
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
HUMAN RIGHTS
CODES
LAWS
DELIVERY OF SERVICES
ABUSE
LEGAL INSTITUTIONS
LEGAL PLURALISM
CARTELS
JUDICIAL REFORM
SOCIAL CHANGES
INHERITANCE
JUDICIAL REVIEW
LAND DISPUTES
CIVIL SOCIETY
SANCTIONS
CONCILIATION
LEGAL SYSTEMS
DIVISION OF PROPERTY
COMPARATIVE LAW
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
PROPERTY RIGHTS
SEPARATION OF POWERS
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
STATE INSTITUTIONS
VIOLENCE
INEQUALITY
LEGAL DEVELOPMENT
HOUSES
CRIMINAL LAW
PUBLIC
RAPE
ADJUDICATION
JUSTICES
LAW BOOKS
WIFE
MEDIATION
LIBERTY
DOMESTIC ABUSE
COURTS
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
POLITICAL PARTIES
CUSTOMS
COURT
POLITICAL POWER
ACTIONS
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS
ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
WOMAN
RULE OF LAW
CONTRACT LAW
SOCIAL CHANGE
PERSONAL PROPERTY
DIVORCE
FINES
WILL
PUBLIC LAW
CRIMINAL
LEGAL JUSTICE
INVESTIGATION
VICTIMS
PERSONAL SECURITY
COMMON LAW
HOME
CONSTITUTIONS
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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18109Abstract
This paper develops a framework and some hypotheses regarding the impact of local-level, informal legal institutions on three economic outcomes: aggregate growth, inequality, and human capabilities. It presents a set of stylized differences between formal and informal legal justice systems, identifies the pathways through which formal systems promote economic outcomes, reflects on what the stylized differences mean for the potential impact of informal legal institutions on economic outcomes, and looks at extant case studies to examine the plausibility of the arguments presented. The paper concludes that local-level, informal legal institutions: (i) can support social substitutes for the enforcement of contracts, though these substitutes tend to be limited in range and scale; (ii) are flexible and could conceivably be adapted to serve the interests of the poor and marginalized if supportive organizational and social resources could be brought to buttress the legal claims of the disempowered; and (iii) are more likely to support personal integrity rights than the positive liberties that are also constitutive of development as freedom.Date
2014-04-29Identifier
oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/18109http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18109
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