World Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 181, P. 106634 - 106634
Published: May 24, 2024
Political settlements analysis is a framework that helps us understand different development trajectories. While it has been used to study the politics of pro-poor growth, there little explicit engagement with economic mechanisms may alleviate or reproduce poverty. This article extends political approach effect and presents new, integrated account for by conceptualizing conditions as well key – employment social provision linking growth empirically applied scrutinize two recent 'success stories', those Laos Rwanda. Both countries have emerged from violent past record over decades fast growth. The paper assesses how they done so what extent their strategies pro-poor. We demonstrate combination centralized ideologically committed ruling coalitions enabled large-scale investments in service spearheaded significant reductions multidimensional poverty Moreover, governance capabilities both achieve certain degree structural change. Yet, this change misdirected extractive industries hydropower (Laos) high-end services (Rwanda) weak limited forward backward linkages, compounded relative lack productivity historically more relevant agricultural manufacturing sectors. intensified land pressures vulnerability, leading increased inequality sustaining already high levels Using ambitious conception underpins our framework, we problematize these trajectories argue neither them recommend researchers advance examine strengthen possibilities justice-oriented bottom-up systematically.
Language: Английский