Hidden Rules of Development
Stephen BrienRe-reading the development record through its anomalies
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What I’ve been reading
Pieces I’ve been reflecting on this month make analogous arguments from different angles: the standard toolkit of development economics looks shakier than the field is willing to admit. What’s left when you strip out the tools points somewh...
A Government Whose Costs All Fall Outward Is Bluffing
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Governments announce reform constantly, and are believed by no one.
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Reagan fired eleven thousand air traffic controllers in a day, and was believed at once. A borne cost cannot be faked.
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What proves intent, and what tells reform...
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Indonesia: The Ratchet That Built the Crash
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Indonesia was brilliantly managed. It was never managed toward what transformation requires.
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Every crisis the state absorbed was one it could no longer force it to change.
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The cost of a manageable correction, one bad enough to m...
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Indonesia Spent Thirty Years Arguing About the Wrong Thing
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Indonesia halted 600 per cent inflation, rode two oil booms without ruin, fed itself, and pulled most of its people out of poverty.
- It wanted more than growth. It set out to become a different kind of economy, and paid real prices to...
Reform Windows Are Made, Not Found
The short version:
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Reformers are taught to wait for a crisis to open a window.
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Most crises open nothing, and plenty of reform happens with no crisis at all.
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The window is not the event. It is the moment someone treats as an o...
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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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