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Developmental States, Effective States, and Poverty Reduction: The Primacy of Politics |
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Adrian Leftwich |
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this paper argues that the politics of development is a special and difficult kind of politics, most sharply expressed in what have come to be called developmental states. I suggest that only effective states and preferably development ones (democratic or not) are capable of establishing the institutions which will facilitate poverty- reducing growth and associated welfare regimes. How ever, building such states cannot be done to order and the irevolution will depend on the political processes that have always established them everywhere . Due to the currently prevalent anti- statist and pro- market orthodoxies, though some what on the decline , and pro- democratic concerns, building effective development states is no longer a straightforward matter. The paper concludes by suggesting that the challenge for donors is a difficult one, but that it is time to start thinking how they can learn to invest in, and support, the political processes that contribute towards the negotiated construction of effective developmental states. |
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