Development Trajectories : An Evolutionary Approach to Integrating Governance and Growth

This note introduces an evolutionary approach to economic and governance reform. It lays out two especially prevalent trajectories that differ starkly from one another in how they prioritize and sequence economic growth, state building, and the dev...

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Main Author:	Levy, Brian
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE SENSE ADMINISTRATIVE CAPABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AGGREGATE LEVEL AUTHORITARIAN RULE AUTHORITY BANKS BINDING CONSTRAINTS BUREAUCRACY CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRAL BANKS CITIZEN CITIZENS CIVIL SOCIETY COLLECTIVE ACTION CONSENSUS CONSTITUENCY CORRUPT CORRUPT COUNTRIES CORRUPTION COUNTRY SPECIFIC CRISES DECISION MAKING DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT PATH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DISCRETION ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMICS ELECTORAL COMPETITION EMERGING ECONOMIES EMPIRICAL WORK ENTRY POINT ENTRY POINTS EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES EXPORT SECTOR FORMAL INSTITUTIONS GLOBALIZATION GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES GOVERNANCE CONSTRAINTS GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNANCE REFORM GOVERNANCE REFORMS GOVERNANCE · CHALLENGES GOVERNMENT · DECISION GOVERNMENT · DECISION MAKING HIGH GROWTH HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE INCOME INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINT INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS INSTITUTIONAL REFORM INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT CLIMATE LAND REFORMS LAWS LEADERSHIP LEGAL ACTION LEGITIMACY LIFE EXPECTANCY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES LOW-INCOME COUNTRY MACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENT MEDIA MEDIUM TERM NONGOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY POLITICAL CHANGE POLITICAL COMPETITION POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL LEADERS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY POLITICAL STABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEM POLITICIANS POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POWER POLITICS PRESIDENCY PRIVATE INVESTMENT PRIVATE INVESTORS PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC ACTION PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC INVESTMENTS PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC RESOURCES PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR GOVERNANCE PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH RAPID EXPANSION RAPID GROWTH RULE OF LAW SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL GROUPS SOVEREIGNTY STATE CAPACITY STATE INSTITUTIONS STATE PERFORMANCE TRACK RECORD TRADE POLICY VIOLENCE VIRTUOUS CYCLE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/05/12330939/development-trajectories-evolutionary-approach-integrating-governance-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10188

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Summary:	This note introduces an evolutionary approach to economic and governance reform. It lays out two especially prevalent trajectories that differ starkly from one another in how they prioritize and sequence economic growth, state building, and the development of civil society and political institutions. The first trajectory focuses initially on investments in state capacity. The second initially prioritizes smaller, more catalytic entry points and addresses specific capacity and institutional constraints as and when they become binding. Over the longer term, both trajectories endogenously generate incentives to strengthen institutions that underpin economic competition and political accountability. But over the short to medium term, the strengths of one trajectory are mirrored as the weakness of the other. For many low-income countries, the combination of rapid growth plus a seeming excess of either order or chaos may thus be in the (medium-term) nature of things, rather than an aberration that requires fixing.

Development Trajectories : An Evolutionary Approach to Integrating Governance and Growth

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