Fragile states and development successes: lessons from the different pathways of the South

Casa de Galicia, Madrid, Spain 06/10/2008 to 07/10/2008

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Although many post-colonial states across Africa, Asia and Latin America initially shared the goals and objectives of state-led planning and modernization, very few of them met their objectives; some, such as Burma-Myanmar, Sudan and Peru, endured major crises and policy reversals.

This seminar, which represents the second major academic encounter of FRIDE’s two-year research Programme on institutionally weak states, partly funded by the Ford Foundation, aims to explore such concrete case studies in order to examine the deeper causes behind these radically different development trajectories. The discussion will explore the political and institutional factors that have impeded state-led modernization, and the international economic conditions that best suit developmental successes.

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