How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay

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...

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Main Author:	Gauri, Varun
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABUSE ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACTIONS ADAT LAW ADJUDICATION AUTHORITY CARTELS CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SOCIETY CLAN LEADERS CODES COMMON LAW COMPARATIVE LAW CONCILIATION CONSTITUTIONS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONTRACT LAW COURT COURTS CRIME CRIMINAL CRIMINAL LAW CUSTOMARY LAW CUSTOMS DELIVERY OF SERVICES DEMOCRACY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS DIVISION OF PROPERTY DIVORCE DOMESTIC ABUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC OUTCOMES FAMILIES FINES HOME HOMICIDE HOUSES HUMAN RIGHTS HUSBAND INDIGENOUS WOMEN INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INFORMAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS INFORMAL SECTOR INHERITANCE INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INVESTIGATION JUDGE JUDGES JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS JUDICIAL POWER JUDICIAL REFORM JUDICIAL REVIEW JUSTICE SYSTEM JUSTICES LAND DISPUTES LAW BOOKS LAWS LEGAL DEVELOPMENT LEGAL INSTITUTIONS LEGAL JUSTICE LEGAL PLURALISM LEGAL PROTECTION LEGAL SYSTEMS LIBERTIES LIBERTY MEDIATION OFFENDER PERSONAL PROPERTY PERSONAL SECURITY POLITICAL CONDITIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL POWER PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC LAW RAPE RESIDENCES ROLE OF LAW RULE OF LAW SANCTION SANCTIONS SEPARATION OF POWERS SEXUAL INTERCOURSE SEXUAL VIOLENCE SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL CHANGES SOCIAL JUSTICE STATE INSTITUTIONS VICTIMS VIOLENCE WIFE WILL WOMAN YOUTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11409829/local-level-legal-institutions-promote-development-exploratory-essay http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18109

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spelling	okr-10986-181092021-04-23T14:03:35Z How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay Gauri, Varun ABUSE ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACTIONS ADAT LAW ADJUDICATION AUTHORITY CARTELS CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SOCIETY CLAN LEADERS CODES COMMON LAW COMPARATIVE LAW CONCILIATION CONSTITUTIONS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONTRACT LAW COURT COURTS CRIME CRIMINAL CRIMINAL LAW CUSTOMARY LAW CUSTOMS DELIVERY OF SERVICES DEMOCRACY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS DIVISION OF PROPERTY DIVORCE DOMESTIC ABUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC OUTCOMES FAMILIES FINES HOME HOMICIDE HOUSES HUMAN RIGHTS HUSBAND INDIGENOUS WOMEN INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INFORMAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS INFORMAL SECTOR INHERITANCE INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INVESTIGATION JUDGE JUDGES JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS JUDICIAL POWER JUDICIAL REFORM JUDICIAL REVIEW JUSTICE SYSTEM JUSTICES LAND DISPUTES LAW BOOKS LAWS LEGAL DEVELOPMENT LEGAL INSTITUTIONS LEGAL JUSTICE LEGAL PLURALISM LEGAL PROTECTION LEGAL SYSTEMS LIBERTIES LIBERTY MEDIATION OFFENDER PERSONAL PROPERTY PERSONAL SECURITY POLITICAL CONDITIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL POWER PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC LAW RAPE RESIDENCES ROLE OF LAW RULE OF LAW SANCTION SANCTIONS SEPARATION OF POWERS SEXUAL INTERCOURSE SEXUAL VIOLENCE SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL CHANGES SOCIAL JUSTICE STATE INSTITUTIONS VICTIMS VIOLENCE WIFE WILL WOMAN YOUTH 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. 2014-04-29T22:30:32Z 2014-04-29T22:30:32Z 2009-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11409829/local-level-legal-institutions-promote-development-exploratory-essay http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18109 English en_US Justice and development working paper series;no. 6 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ABUSE ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACTIONS ADAT LAW ADJUDICATION AUTHORITY CARTELS CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SOCIETY CLAN LEADERS CODES COMMON LAW COMPARATIVE LAW CONCILIATION CONSTITUTIONS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONTRACT LAW COURT COURTS CRIME CRIMINAL CRIMINAL LAW CUSTOMARY LAW CUSTOMS DELIVERY OF SERVICES DEMOCRACY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS DIVISION OF PROPERTY DIVORCE DOMESTIC ABUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC OUTCOMES FAMILIES FINES HOME HOMICIDE HOUSES HUMAN RIGHTS HUSBAND INDIGENOUS WOMEN INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INFORMAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS INFORMAL SECTOR INHERITANCE INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INVESTIGATION JUDGE JUDGES JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS JUDICIAL POWER JUDICIAL REFORM JUDICIAL REVIEW JUSTICE SYSTEM JUSTICES LAND DISPUTES LAW BOOKS LAWS LEGAL DEVELOPMENT LEGAL INSTITUTIONS LEGAL JUSTICE LEGAL PLURALISM LEGAL PROTECTION LEGAL SYSTEMS LIBERTIES LIBERTY MEDIATION OFFENDER PERSONAL PROPERTY PERSONAL SECURITY POLITICAL CONDITIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL POWER PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC LAW RAPE RESIDENCES ROLE OF LAW RULE OF LAW SANCTION SANCTIONS SEPARATION OF POWERS SEXUAL INTERCOURSE SEXUAL VIOLENCE SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL CHANGES SOCIAL JUSTICE STATE INSTITUTIONS VICTIMS VIOLENCE WIFE WILL WOMAN YOUTH
spellingShingle	ABUSE ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACTIONS ADAT LAW ADJUDICATION AUTHORITY CARTELS CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SOCIETY CLAN LEADERS CODES COMMON LAW COMPARATIVE LAW CONCILIATION CONSTITUTIONS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONTRACT LAW COURT COURTS CRIME CRIMINAL CRIMINAL LAW CUSTOMARY LAW CUSTOMS DELIVERY OF SERVICES DEMOCRACY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS DIVISION OF PROPERTY DIVORCE DOMESTIC ABUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC OUTCOMES FAMILIES FINES HOME HOMICIDE HOUSES HUMAN RIGHTS HUSBAND INDIGENOUS WOMEN INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INFORMAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS INFORMAL SECTOR INHERITANCE INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INVESTIGATION JUDGE JUDGES JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS JUDICIAL POWER JUDICIAL REFORM JUDICIAL REVIEW JUSTICE SYSTEM JUSTICES LAND DISPUTES LAW BOOKS LAWS LEGAL DEVELOPMENT LEGAL INSTITUTIONS LEGAL JUSTICE LEGAL PLURALISM LEGAL PROTECTION LEGAL SYSTEMS LIBERTIES LIBERTY MEDIATION OFFENDER PERSONAL PROPERTY PERSONAL SECURITY POLITICAL CONDITIONS POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL POWER PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC LAW RAPE RESIDENCES ROLE OF LAW RULE OF LAW SANCTION SANCTIONS SEPARATION OF POWERS SEXUAL INTERCOURSE SEXUAL VIOLENCE SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL CHANGES SOCIAL JUSTICE STATE INSTITUTIONS VICTIMS VIOLENCE WIFE WILL WOMAN YOUTH Gauri, Varun How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay
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description	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.
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author	Gauri, Varun
author_facet	Gauri, Varun
author_sort	Gauri, Varun
title	How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay
title_short	How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay
title_full	How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay
title_fullStr	How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay
title_full_unstemmed	How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay
title_sort	how do local-level legal institutions promote development? an exploratory essay
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11409829/local-level-legal-institutions-promote-development-exploratory-essay http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18109
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How Do Local-Level Legal Institutions Promote Development? An Exploratory Essay

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