ISBN:
9781003044123
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1003044123
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9781040016640
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1040016642
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9781040016671
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1040016677
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages)
,
illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color).
Series Statement:
Routledge explorations in development studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nawabi, Jawied Why states matter in economic development
DDC:
338.9009172/4
Keywords:
Public institutions Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
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Developing countries Case studies Economic development
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Wirtschaftspolitik
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Institutionenökonomie
Abstract:
"This book examines the underlying conditions that give rise to states that are effective, efficient, and bureaucratically inclusive with their developmental policies. In spite of humanity's significant advancements in science, technology and institutionalisation of universal human rights conventions in the last seven decades, many countries are still failing to achieve successful development results. As a result, enormous levels of inequality, poverty and malnutrition prevail. This book focuses on the role of the state in the political economy of development, tracing the socio-economic origins of effective state institutions from a comparative historical-institutional perspective. Drawing on the case studies of South Korea, Brazil, India, Spain, France and England, the study looks at how good state institutions form, and why these are central to the socioeconomic advancement of their populations. The book contends that effective developmental states are those in which state actors are able to effectively diminish and co-opt the power of the country's landed elites during the early years of state building. Effectively the power balance between these two classes determines the developmental trajectory of the state. Considering agrarian reform as the foremost indispensable policy tool to open conditions for positive changes in effective taxation, education, healthcare and strategic sustainable industrial policies, this analysis offers a significant contribution to the literature on the sociology of institutions and the political economy of development. As well as being a key reading for advanced students and researchers in these areas, this book draws real-life policy lessons for practitioners and policy makers in the developing world"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2024)
