Hidden Rules of Development
Stephen BrienRe-reading the development record through its anomalies
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Why Political Reform Is Difficult to Sustain
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A government can pass every law on the books and still be bluffing, and break the law in secret and still be changing the country for good.
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What holds a country’s rules in place is not law but what its powerful...
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THE PERFORMANCE TEST
The shared question across these three pieces: what distinguishes the four East Asian economies that kept climbing toward the technology frontier from the four that grew fast for a generation and then settled into a...
An Open Market, a Sound Currency, a Capable State — and Still No Transformation
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The textbook says fix three things first: open the market, competitive currency, capable state. This post tests that advice on economies that had them and stalled anyway.
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Each was fully in place in an economy tha...
Eight Miracles Grew Alike. Why Did Only Four Transform?
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The World Bank’s 2008 Commission on Growth and Development named thirteen genuine postwar miracles; this post lines up eight of them and asks what split them.
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Not accumulation, and not industrial policy: investme...
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STATE CAPACITY
Three pieces sharing a common question: what actually produces state capacity, as distinct from the institutional forms that are supposed to carry it? Henn and Robinson show that the prior condition for Africa’s state-bui...
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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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