State Capacity and Economic Development

Dincecco, Mark

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“…A large literature has studied the determinants of state capacity for developed countries, while the systematic quantitative analysis of state capacity in developing countries is still at its infancy (Dincecco 2017). For example, a well-known line of thinking associated with Tilly (1975) links the historical making of the fiscal-military state in early modern Europe with interstate wars (Bardhan 2016).…”

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“…There has been a revival of interest in the role of the state in economic development (Centeno et al 2017;Dincecco 2017). The analysis of state capacity, defined as the institutional capability of the state to carry out various policies that deliver benefits and services to households and firms (Besley and Persson 2011), has emerged as the cutting edge of research on the relationship between governance, institutions and long-term economic development.…”

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“…(1) a strong legislature which finds the need to generate broad-based coalitions, thereby offsetting the narrow focus of the executive, and (2) an independent judiciary which promotes broad-based access to public services through statutory service obligations or rights-based arguments and rulings (Besley and Persson 2011;Bardhan 2016;Centeno et al 2017;Dincecco 2017). 5 To examine the determinants of administrative capacity, we use a recent data set on public financial management performance measures in developing countries constructed by the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) project, a consortium of the World Bank and other donor agencies.…”

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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Ricciuti

Savoia

Sen

2019

Int Tax Public Finance

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While it is recognised that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, their origins and what explains their cross-country differences are not well understood. We focus on the quality of budgetary institutions in developing economies, as efficient public financial planning in such countries is crucial for public goods and services provision. We argue that political institutions, seen as the system of checks and balances on the executive, are a key ingredient for building such capacity. Exploiting a recent database on public financial management performance in developing economies and an instrumental variable strategy, we generally find that stronger constraints on the executive have a positive effect on the ability of states to design, implement and monitor their budget. Our findings are robust to different specifications, controls and estimation methods. 1 In a companion paper, we have analysed how political institutions affect taxation in developing countries (Ricciuti et al. 2018). 2 Our approach complements other established areas of research on bureaucracy, such as frontline service delivery. See Pepinsky et al. (2017) for a review. 3 The public administration literature distinguishes four aspects of bureaucratic performance (see Lodge and Wegrich 2014).Coordination capacity involves bringing together disparate organisations to engage in joint action; analytical capacity is the ability to analyse information and provide advice and vulnerability assessments; regulation capacity involves control, surveillance, oversight and auditing; and delivery capacity relates to the exercise of power and providing public services in practice. 4 The existence of first-order differences between investment cost and capital value in developing countries-where public investment accounts for more than 50% of total investments-is emphasised by Pritchett (2000).

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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Ricciuti

Savoia

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2019

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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Ricciuti¹,

Savoia²,

Sen³

2018

WIDER Working Paper

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While it is recognised that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, their origins and what explains their crosscountry differences are not well understood. We focus on the quality of budgetary institutions in developing economies, as efficient public financial planning in such countries is crucial for public goods and services provision. We argue that political institutions, seen as the system of checks and balances on the executive, are a key ingredient for building such capacity. Exploiting a recent database on public financial management performance in developing economies and an instrumental variable strategy, we generally find that stronger constraints on the executive have a positive effect on the ability of states to design, implement and monitor their budget. Our findings are robust to different specifications, controls and estimation methods.

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“…The new regional states in the Middle East and North Africa, successor states that followed the dismemberment of the empire and reconstituted themselves as independent units with state capacity, benefitted from these policies. The term state capacity refers to the power of the state to discharge its responsibilities and efficiently organize the economy, extract resources, collect taxes in equitable manner, distribute the benefits accrued to society, defend its citizens, invest in, and organize economic activities (Besley & Persson, ; Blaydes, ; Dincecco, ). The question at hand is to demonstrate how did the successor‐states by maintaining the benefits obtained during the Empire period in the post‐Empire period, save on the costs involved in state formation and in building state capacity (Bosworth, ; Spuler, ).…”

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Recent trends in Middle East economic history: Cultural factors and structural change in the medieval period 650–1500 (Part two)

Shatzmiller

2018

History Compass

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State Capacity and Economic Development

Cited by 89 publications

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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Recent trends in Middle East economic history: Cultural factors and structural change in the medieval period 650–1500 (Part two)

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