2. Today, Wednesday, 24 April 2013
D Rodrik – “Goodbye Washington
Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion?”
P Heller – “Moving the State: The Politics of
Democratic Democratization in Kerala, SA
and Porto Alegre
D Mosse – “People’s
Knowledge, Participation and Patronage:
Operations and Representations in Rural
Development”
3. 1. D Rodrik – “Goodbye
Washington Consensus”
WC policies have failed
World Bank admits
WC policies ill-conceived
Advocates for measured, cautious, contextual
and experimental policies
IMF admits it but for different reasons
WC policies did not go far enough
WC policies were not well implemented
Let’s enhance them, make them even stronger
4. 1. D Rodrik – “Goodbye
Washington Consensus”
UN agrees WC policies failed
Proposes UN Millennium Project
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org
Let’s increase foreign aid to Africa
Africa’s is a special case of “poverty trap”
Practical growth strategies
Detailed diagnostics of barriers to economic
growth (drill down to specifics, contingencies)
Targeted policy design based on detailed
diagnostics
Institutional reforms to sustain economic growth
5. 2. P Heller – “Decentralization in
Kerala, SA and Porto Alegre”
Similarities between Kerala, SA and Porto Alegre
Left-of-centre political parties (CPM, ANC, PC)
In Kerala and Porto Alegre
Decentralization (popular participation, building
local democratic government) stronger, sustained
Strengthened local democratic institutions and
planning capacity
Decentralization conceived as resurrection of
transformative planning
6. 2. P Heller – “Decentralization in
Kerala, SA and Porto Alegre”
In SA, on the other hand:
Local government as frontline in the
marketization of public authority
Concentrated political centralization
Expansion of technocratic and managerial
authority
Shift from democratic to market models of
accountability
Civil society, social movement incorporated or
marginalized by the ANC’s political hegemony
7. 2. P Heller – “Decentralization in
Kerala, SA and Porto Alegre”
Two strategies for decentralization
Technocratic type of decentralization
Faith in experts (technocrats and managers)
Western knowledge of public admin, finances, and
planning
Rational techniques
Decentralization is top-down – dirigisme
Anarcho-communitarian (AC) type of decentralization
Vibrant and participatory civil society
Faith in capacity of local actors to know what’s best for
themselves
Social movements, build up local capacities, grassroots
institutions, extra-parliamentary spaces of participation
8. 3. D Mosse – “People’s
Knowledge, Participation and
Patronage”
Assumption 1: Participatory learning and
planning (PRA/PLA) are defining features
of participation in development
Assumption 2: Consideration of people’s
knowledge can transform top-down
bureaucratic planning systems
Mosse questions these assumptions with
example of Indo-British Farming Project in
India
9. 3. D Mosse – “People’s
Knowledge, Participation and
Patronage”
PRA is messy, gendered, complex, entangled with
local and extra-local power relations and interests
Local knowledge reflects local power
Outside agendas massaged into “local
knowledge”
Project staff and locals collude in positioning
personal local interests as “people’s knowledge”
People’s planning is manipulated
Influence of
technocracy, management, accountability.
