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Sunday, 13 September 2009 14:06
Missing links in the politics of development: learning from the PRSP experiment
ODI's David Booth is a leading commentator on the politics of development. He points out the dilemma for donors: effective participation is a function of healthy, democratic political processes, which by their nature cannot be 'engineered' by external actors. He concludes that the theory that more participatory policy processes will be more effective has proved to be "naive". His studies of the political economy of LICs suggest that real decisions on resource allocation are taken behind the scenes by small groups of politicians, and that formal policy processes are largely "window dressing". However, there is greater potential in MICs, where there is informed public opinion, a degree of effective parliamentary scrutiny and an active media.
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