William Easterly|Ross Levine
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development
New York University|Center for Global Development|Peterson Institute for International Economics|National Bureau of Economic Research|University of Minnesota
economic development depend geographic endowments like temperate instead tropical location ecological conditions shaping diseases environment good grains certain cash crops endowments tropics germs crops affect economic development institutions policies test endowment institution policy views using cross country evidence find evidence tropics germs crops affect development institutions find evidence tropics germs crops affect country incomes directly institutions find effect policies development control institutions