Working with the Grain

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Chapter 2 Constructing a Typology. Chapter 3 The Edge of Chaos. Over the long-run, good governance may indeed be a destination to which, as countries develop, they converge.

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However, the ability to describe well-governed states does not conjure them into existence out of thin air. Best practices approaches assume that all policies and institutions are potentially move-able, and can be aligned to fit some pre-specified blueprint. But the central issues for governance reform have less to do with the end point than with the journey of getting from here to there.

The approach to development policy laid out in Working with the Grain is anchored in recent important conceptual breakthroughs in understanding how institutions, politics and economic policy interact with one another. But those conceptual breakthroughs generally have been used to analyze governance and growth from the Olympian heights of long-term history.

WORKING WITH THE GRAIN: Integrating governance and growth

By contrast, the focus here is less on the very long-run than on how governance-growth interactions play out over a decade or so — a time horizon which is of more immediate practical relevance for policymakers. What types of actions might one take now that can provide a stronger platform a decade hence? What developmental gains can be achieved over the course of a decade? What actions can lead to a more attractive set of opportunities at the end of the period than at the outset?

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And how might the answers vary across different types of country settings? To be successful, reforms cannot be re-engineered from scratch but need to be aligned with these realities. They need to be compatible with the incentives of a critical mass of influential actors, so that they have a stake in the reforms, and are willing to champion them in the face of opposition from those who benefit from the pre-existing arrangements.