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[Combating poverty and inequality] Building state capacity for poverty reduction
Bangura, Yusuf Lavers, Thomas
Bangura, Yusuf
Lavers, Thomas
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"For development strategies to generate the types of structural change and corporate behaviour conducive to equitable growth and poverty reduction described in this report, states must possess certain capacities. They must be able to overcome critical market failures; assist in the acquisition of new technologies; mobilize and channel resources to productive sectors; enforce standards and regulations; establish social pacts; and fund, deliver and regulate services and social programmes. Governments must also be able to reach political settlements with domestic actors in defi ning public policies and creating developmental and welfare-enhancing bureaucracies. Such settlements may differ in authoritarian and democratic regimes. In the fi rst case, they tend to be top-down, while in the second, they generally require a broader power base and more engagement with citizens. States that can deliver growth-oriented and welfareenhancing structural change need to be rule based, not beholden to patronage, knowledgeable about the economy and society, and staffed by adequately paid and trained individuals. They also need to be able to mobilize domestic resources and strengthen capacities to infl uence and discipline investor behaviour. Current international development policies that emphasize a standard set of market reforms pursued through various types of conditionality limit the policy space in which national actors can pursue alternative development strategies."(pg 257)
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2010
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9789290850762
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