ECDPM, 4 May 2010 PowerPoint presented at ECDPM to introduce institutional approaches to Capacity Development

1. Institutional and Capacity Development Centre Seminar 4th May 2010

2. Study Report Capacity, Change and Performance www.ecdpm.org/dp58b Marc Levy

3. Policy Management Brief Capacity, Change and Performance www.ecdpm.org/pmr22 Marc Levy

4. Policy Management Brief Capacity, Change and Performance www.ecdpm.org/pmr21 Marc Levy

5. What is it ? How to do ? Capacity is Development Why institutions matter ?

6. definitions frameworks New ideas methods

7. Most difficult is not to have new ideas, but to leave the old ones

10. Institutional assessment and CD

11. Toolkit for capacity assessment

12. CAD/OCDE 2006 Marc Levy

19. In that case if development is (also) an institutional changing process implementing capacity building ……..

20. … we must specify what we mean with institutions …..

21. … and revise what we mean with economic development

22. Institutional economy

27. Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) Economy embedded into social structures of society

28. Albert Hirschman (1915) Non economic issues influencing economy

29. Susan Strange (1923-1998) Structural role of power relationships to understand international economy

30. Thorstein Veblen & John Commons (1857-1929) (1862-1945)

32. Douglass North & Oliver Williamson (1920/Nobel 1993) (1932/Nobel 2009)

33. Ronald Coase (1910) We need institutions to minimize transaction costs

34. Michel Aglietta & Robert Boyer (1938) (1943)

36. What can we learn from them to revise economic development thanks to institutional issues ?

40. (4) We must take into account interaction between three levels : Types of Organisation = « Organisation matters » Individual behaviour = « Behaviour matters » Institutional context = « Institution matters »

44. and to Political economy analysis

45. 3 definitions Frameworkthe 5Cs New ideas institutional economy & political economy Method4 steps

46. What for ?

47. Institute for New Economic Thinking (October 2009)

49. The most unequal countries are the least socially efficient

52. Thanks for listening