Hidden Rules of Development
Stephen BrienRe-reading the development record through its anomalies
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Why Africa Keeps Getting the Wrong Kind of Crisis
has been writing in several posts about what he calls the “ambition gap”: the distance between the scale of Africa’s development challenge and the outsourced, muddling-through way in which its governments tend to meet it. In his account, th...
Why Thailand Has Toyota Plants But No Samsung
Thailand maintained growth above 7 per cent for most years between 1960 and 1997. It earned a place on the Growth Commission’s short list and turned a rice economy into a manufacturing exporter inside a single generation. Previous posts loo...
Why Governing Orientation Comes First
Previous posts in this series established governing orientation as the variable that most consistently explains what governance systems produce. Governing orientation names what a political system actually optimises for, discoverable from r...
The Picking-Winners Problem Is Solved. The Reading Problem Can't Be Programmed.
The World Bank’s rehabilitation of industrial policy as a legitimate development strategy has generated some of the most productive writing on the subject in years. Two responses are worth reading together. ’s directed improvisation framewo...
Malaysia: Just Developmental Enough
Singapore, Taiwan, and Korea directed investment toward designated industries and insulated economic decisions from political demands for redistribution. Three conditions define transformation-oriented governing: declared developmental inte...
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I’ve worked across government, development and strategy in the UK, Middle East and Africa, and led the Legatum Prosperity Index. I’m a Visiting Senior Fellow at Artha Global & Future Africa, and Chair of the UK Social Security Advisory Committee.
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