JUST PUBLISHED ONLINE!
Development Policy Review
Theme issue: 'Developmental States in the New Millennium'
Vol. 25, no. 5, September
2007
Edited by Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal
The developmental state is back at the centre of international
policy debate. Policy thinking shows an increasing willingness
to leave behind value-laden prescriptions about governance
and to adopt approaches rooted in comparative history and
evidence-based analytical theory. The concept of the developmental
state serves as an anchor for discussions among researchers
and policy-makers on how to bring relevant evidence from history
to bear on today's policy challenges.
There are rich academic literatures on the state and development
(or lack thereof) in different regions of the developing world.
However, the relevance of these bodies of work to today's
policy concerns remains unclear. There have been relatively
few attempts to use them as building blocks for policy reflection,
and to spell out how they might better inform current policies
for developing countries. This theme issue is a contribution
to filling this gap. Drawing on the contributions made by
several academics and practitioners to a special Meeting Series
organised by the Overseas Development Institute from February
to June 2006, the issue attempts to inform the process of
rethinking how more effective and responsive states can be
(re-)built - and what the role of the international assistance
community may be in that process.
Developmental
States in the New Millennium: Concepts and Challenges for
a New Aid Agenda
Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal **free to download**
Good
Enough Governance Revisited
Merilee S. Grindle **free to download**
Do
No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions and the Missing Middle in
Africa
Nancy Birdsall
The
Logic of African Neopatrimonialism: What Role for Donors?
Diana Cammack
Financing
the Developmental State: Tax and Revenue Issues
Alice Sindzingre
Political
Parties and Democratic Developmental States
Vicky Randall
Aid,
Politics and Development: A Donor Perspective
Jeremy Armon
DPR Order
Form
MEETING SERIES PROGRAMME
Developmental
States: what they are and why we need them
Speaker: Adrian Leftwich, Senior Lecturer, University
of York
Discussant: David Booth, ODI
Wednesday 1st February, 12.15 - 1.30 at ODI
Building
Democratic and Accountable States
(Joint Session with ODI-APGOOD Meeting Series: 'What's
Next in International Development?')
Speaker: Rt Hon Donald C. McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary-General
Discussant: Dianna Cammack
Thursday 9th February, 12.45-2.00pm,
Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Victoria, Embankment
Judicial
Reform and the Rule of Law
Speaker: Thomas Carothers, Senior Associate and Director
of the Democracy
and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
Discussant: Laure-Hélène Piron, DFID
Wednesday 22nd February, 5pm - 6.30pm at ODI
States and
Societies: why is state formation so difficult?
Speaker: Patrick Chabal, Professor of Lusophone African
Studies, Kings College London
Discussant: Simon Maxwell, ODI
Wednesday 1st March, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
States
and Markets
Speaker: Ha-Joon Chang, Assistant Director of Development
Studies, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Mick Moore, Institute of Development Studies
(IDS) at Sussex
Wednesday 8th March, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
States
and Civil Societies in the New Aid Approach
Speaker: Jenny Pearce, Professor of Latin American
Politics, University of Bradford
Discussant: Alina Rocha Menocal, ODI
Wednesday, 15th March, 5.00 - 6.30 at ODI
Corruption
and Anti-corruption
Speaker: John Githongo, former Permanent Secretary for
Governance & Ethics in the Government of Kenya and currently
Senior Associate Member, St Anthony's College, University of
Oxford.
Discussant: Bryane Michael, University of Oxford
Friday 24th March, 12.30 - 2.00pm at ODI
From
Civil Service Reform to Capacity Development
Speaker: Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor
of International Development, Center of International Development,
Harvard University
Discussant: Andrew Lawson, ODI
Wednesday 29th March, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
Financing
The State: Tax and Revenue Issues
Speaker: Alice Sindzingre, Research Fellow, National
Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris)/Research Associate,
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Discussant: Jonathan Di John, London School of Economics
(LSE)
Wednesday 5th April, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
Human
Rights and Development: Reflections about States, local governance
and international institutions
Speaker: Dr Hans-Otto Sano, Director of Research, Danish
Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen
Discussant: Marta Foresti, ODI
Wednesday 26th April, 12.30 - 2.00pm at ODI
State-Building,
Aid and Security in the Context of Failed States
Speaker: Dr Kirsti Samuels, State-Building & Constitutional
Law Consultant, UNDP Somalia
Discussant: Karin Christiansen, ODI
Thursday 18th May, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
Aid
and State Formation in Africa: What the Rich World Cannot
Do
Speaker: Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global
Development
Discussant: Verena Fritz, ODI
Monday 22nd May, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
Political
Parties and Developmental States
Speaker: Vicky Randall, Professor of Government, University
of Essex and 2005-6 Olof Palme Visiting Chair, University
of Gothenburg, Sweden
Discussant: Roger Hällhag, Head of Programme for
Political Parties, International IDEA
Wednesday 21st June, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
Conclusion: Roundtable - What Have
We Learnt About Developmental States?
INVITATION ONLY
Outcomes will be made available on the ODI website in the
usual way
Tuesday 27th June
EXTRA MEETING
States
and Economic Development: What Role? What Risks?
Speaker: Prof Mushtaq Khan, Professor of Economics,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Discussant: Chris Stevens, Director of Programes, International
Economic Development Group (IEDG), ODI
Wednesday 22nd November, 5.00 - 6.30pm at ODI
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