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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Levy, Brian
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2010-05
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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/10188
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