PIA 2501

Development Policy and

Management

WEEK FIVE

1983-2000 Special Focus

Structural Adjustment with or without a “Human Face”

End of development model assumption Orthodoxy: Overseas capital

investment

Accepts Foreign or "Pariah" group ownership and control of trade and commerce

A New Reality: Local soft political institutions, weak private sectors

Change: the Neo-Orthodoxy

The Realities: To End of 1980s- Focus on anti-Marxist, growth regimes

Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Chile, South Africa (newly emerging States)

Politics not important

Neo-Orthodoxy

No development management- development programs are “bad”

Can’t make planning better Neo-Orthodoxy and

privatization

To what extent is the state planning approach possible?

Bureaucratic, administrative and political constraints constitute a major limitation

Development strategies often parallel but ignore political realities

“Looking fora Rule to Follow”

Neo-Orthodoxy View of Development Management

Five year plans of over 1500 pages for a country of less than a million people

Part of unfulfilled rhetoric of development

National Planning to be replaced by local and regional planning (and Projects

Failures of Development Planning

A Problem: The limits on political compromise and local level autonomy

Failure of Development and the limits of the econometric model

Failure of planning blamed on weak planning and administrative capacity

Planning was a “shopping list”

Counter-Orthodoxy Argument Bureaucracies are socio-economic

actors

Good example: Land reform and bureaucracies

A study of 25 major land reforms--in 15 cases the bureaucracy was major beneficiary in the process

PICARD

“Unpaid Editorial”

The Problem (1): Bad Planning and Foreign

Aid

1. Bureaucrats/practitioners ignored development theories & ideas

2. LDC Development Institutes were largely irrelevant as training centers--donors used overseas training

3. International Organizations (UNDP, IMF and World Bank) promoted Programs that were unworkable.

The Foreign Aid Meeting

The Problem (2)

Development administration did little to deal with issues of population control, food production and rural development

Foreign aid was seen as little more than a front for foreign policy

Anti-Planning: Neo-Orthodoxy: The Problem (3)

Planning illustrates problem of soft-state and inability of state to impose its will on society-

Planning Part of the Problem

But the Problems are real

Land Reform and Women’sRights

But….

Donors Need Planning Skills (Still)

“National Program Support Office, Afghanistan” (October, 2005)

Project Management Unit (PMU)

Autonomous Work Packaging Model

“End of Editorial”

The Middle View The Moderate Interpretation of

Development Administration Failures

Goal: Realistic Decision-Making based on sufficient knowledge (strategic planning) “Mixed Scanning”

Balance Public-Private Partnerships

The Twenty-First Century Model

The Problems of Development

Management: Discussion Quote of the Week:

"The Human Condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved."

 Graham Greene

Return to Issue in Discussion

Is Strategic Planning (involvement) possible?

Structural Adjustment Policies1985-2001- Redeux

Failure of the Developmental State: Goran Hyden

Linked to “pre-scientific modes of production of peasants”—Economy of Affection

Failure of State and “Exit Option” (See work of Albert O. Hirschman)

Problem of Endemic Patronage and

Corruption

Structural Adjustment Policies1985-2001

The Structural Adjustment Argument- Need to

1. stabilize currency and markets (getting the prices right)

2. Promote Free Trade

3. Need to refocus role of state from development to law and order and deregulation

4. Address the problem of Debt and Structural Adjustment reforms (IMF and World Bank)

Structural Adjustment, Cont.5. Reduce the size of the public sector (infamous

19% cut)

6. Promote Privatization or “NGOism”—Negative on the State

Privatization (Rambo vs. Effete)

Faith in Capitalist Entrepreneurialism

Neo-Orthodoxy had a purist element

Structural Adjustment Policies1985-2001 The Argument for “NGOism”

Left wing Privatization (Private Voluntary Organizations, Cooperatives, Community Based Organizations, Non-Profits)

Energy of NGOs Structural Adjustment Public Sector Reform—Reduce size and

restructure state Populist

Summary: Development Management in 2000

Concern about incapacity: Questions raised about efficacy of state approach

Critics spoke of negative state

Government had become a negative

Debates focused on privatization, public sector reform and NGOism

Need to address issues of external vs. internal solutions to development problems

(domestic capacity vs. international redistribution)

Summary: Development Management in 2000 Focus should be on issues of sustainability and

institutional development- not projects

Need to search for a creative, flexible, and innovative management system

Difficult to separate development from politics

Implementation had become the neglected component of development policy (Pressman and Wildavsky)

Question: The appropriateness of the U.S. case study as lessons for development action?

Choices:

Contracting Out and Privatization

NGOism and Grants

Capacity Building (HRD)

A Mixed Scanning Approach

TEN MINUTE BREAK

Internal Capacity Issues(Bryant & White)

Debates: the “Attitudes Problem” in LDC?

How to get people to think developmentally?

Changes in programmatic values have an impact on LDC elites

Problem of the Organizational Bourgeoisie: Bureaucratic values unchanged from colonial period as domestic elites manipulate public policy (Picard)

Internal Capacity Issues(Bryant & White)

Debates: the “Attitudes Problem” and the Public Sector

Myth of civil service neutrality: Bureaucratic elites have interests “Statism”

At best what results is benign neglect, at worst resource extraction

Problem: failure to develop and indigenous capitalism

Problem: The Expanding Civil Service

Civil Servant Component of the total Current Budget

10 to 15% in MDCs

30 to 60% in LDCs

South Africa in 2001, 46%

Benin in the 1980s, 64%

Central African Republic in the 1960s, 81%

Private Sector

Limited to settler, pariah groups—Jews and Roma in Eastern Europe, Chinese in much of Asia, Lebanese and East Indians in parts of Africa and Latin America (See Books of V.S. Naipaul)

Gypsies (Roma) in Europe

Internal Capacity Issues(Bryant & White) Debates: the “Attitudes Problem”

Indigenous Elites- Sometimes referred to as “Comprador” classes or “dependent elites,” since they have been co-opted and are linked to Northern Tier states- Cronyism

Expatriate Attitudes?

Internal Capacity Issues(Bryant & White)

Debates: the Bureaucratic “Attitudes Problem” continued

How developmental are bureaucrats?

Can the state be used for SOCIAL ENGINEERING?

Is the private or non-profit sector better

at development?

Social Mobilization Training

Internal Capacity Issues(Bryant & White)Basic Needs Assumptions: Problem Need for increased capacity of public,

parastatal and private sectors

State should remain central to development planning and management

Need for administrative reform to develop more creative development structures

AMTRAK- Public or Private?

DISCUSSION

From “Mister Johnson”

Denis A. Goulet, 75, died December 26, 2006: Appropriate Theory and

Practice

The Discussion Debate

Joyce Cary, “The Two Faces of Progress”

Denis Goulet, “The Cruel Choice”

The Development Message?

Is Progress the Answer?

Late Colonial Philippines

Discussion: Stanley Karnow: “In Our Image?”

In Our Image (France, U.S., Portugal)

Is assimilation the answer?

In the Philippines, South East Asia, Middle East / Africa?

Latin America: Just Spain?

Books of the Week

Graham Greene, The Quiet American

Jan Myrdal, Report from a Chinese Village

The Problems of Development Management

Quote of the Week:

The Quiet American- An Alternative to expatriate non-involvement?

"The Human Condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved.“

 Graham Greene

Books for Next Week

Khushwant Singh, Last Train to Pakistan

Kurban Said, Ali and Nino

The Authors

Gunnar Myrdal and Graham Greene

The Development Debates

What message does each author bring to the table?

What do we learn about development?

What do you like and dislike about the two books

The AuthorsKushwant Singh Kurban Said

Case Studies for Next Week

Carlos Fuentes- “The Cost of Living”

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “The Interview”

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Carlos Fuentes