On the economic effects of Indigenous institutions: Evidence from Mexico

Elizalde, Aldo

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102530

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“…The Balkan countries are striving to join the European Union, so it is permissible to believe that governments are purposefully building formal free market institutions. On the example of the economic behavior of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, the significance of traditional institutional ties is revealed -in intra-tribal relations [11]. Complexly arranged tribes adapted better to economic changes (namely, to distribution of land holdings) than their politically weakly determined neighbors.…”

Section: Investment Potential Factors: Methodology Overviewmentioning

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Socio-cultural and institutional factors of the investment potential of the regions of the Russian Federation

2021

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The article discusses the problem of sustainable development of the regional economy considering the consequences of the 2020 pandemic. The authors make an assumption about the stabilizing effect of the previously accumulated investment potential at the regional level. Regions with high investment potential have a high degree of the regional economy resilience. The object of the study was the dynamics of socio-economic indicators of investment potential in 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation for the period from 2009 to 2018. To consider the long-term development trend of the region, institutional and sociocultural variables were added to the system of indicators of the regression model. The results of the regression analysis indicate the importance of only one of the tested institutional and social factors – the volume of issued housing mortgage loans. The affordability of housing for the region population can be an important factor in the sustainability of the regional economy and be considered as a key benchmark of the regional investment strategy.

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Section: Investment Potential Factors: Methodology Overviewmentioning

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Socio-cultural and institutional factors of the investment potential of the regions of the Russian Federation

2021

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“…Through a new law, in 1883 (already in the Porfiriato), demarcation companies were created, dedicated to looking for land to distribute, advancing the privatization process. By the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, many lands were stripped from indigenous communities by large estates (Elizalde, 2020). At the beginning of the 20th century, the situation of indigenous people who worked on the haciendas worsened, mainly due to mistreatment.…”

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“…All this led to the fact that the economic incentives for private economic development within the Reductions were nonexistent; therefore, many indigenous people migrated in search of better opportunities, even when discrimination against them was a significant impediment. By 1800, 90 percent of indigenous people lived in these places (Elizalde, 2020).…”

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“…Notably, the distribution of these lands was to communities not to individuals. A very revealing result was that of Elizalde (2020), who demonstrated that the most structured and cohesive indigenous communities (those that had followed their uses and customs and that were efficient in the production of public goods and 19 For example, the enganche was frequent and accepted, consisting of granting the Indians, in advance of their salaries, a loan that the landowners themselves made unpayable (if it was even really granted to them), forcing them to buy their supplies in the store of the hacienda, with their own money from the hacienda, and debts were inheritable. Obviously, escaping workers were considered fugitives in legal terms and corporal punishment was acceptable.…”

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Culture, Utility Function and Economic Growth: The Case of Mexican Indigenous People

Pérez-Velasco

2022

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Indigenous communities are the poorest sector in Mexico, and much of their precarious situation is due to their economic behavior. This article analyzes the part of their culture that affects their current economic behavior and that is derived from what happened in their history, beginning in the colonial era. However, unlike other studies, this study links cultural aspects with a formal model of economic growth. To this end, a way of incorporating various cultural factors into the utility function of the individuals composing that society is shown, and those factors are then integrated into a model of economic growth. In this way, conclusions are obtained that would have been difficult to reach otherwise. The cultural factors that are added to the utility function are preferences for working with household specialization and using a technology similar to that used by their ancestors. The emergence and formation of these preferences is shown throughout their history because the communities were acquiring them as part of their survival strategies against a very adverse environment. Likewise, empirical evidence of the relationship of the aforementioned cultural factors with economic growth is presented. Classification code O12, O32, Z13

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The Making of Mexico: The Political Economy of Conquest and Independence

Arteaga

2023

Roots of Underdevelopment

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On the economic effects of Indigenous institutions: Evidence from Mexico

Cited by 5 publications

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Socio-cultural and institutional factors of the investment potential of the regions of the Russian Federation

Socio-cultural and institutional factors of the investment potential of the regions of the Russian Federation

Culture, Utility Function and Economic Growth: The Case of Mexican Indigenous People

The Making of Mexico: The Political Economy of Conquest and Independence

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