Though it looks like just another development document, the World Bank s 1997 World Development Report has provoked quite a stir. For the first time, the World Bank explicitly links economic growth to the quality of governance. In a fascinating departure from economics as usual, the report focuses on new questions including how to match a state s role to its actual capability and how to build a state s institutional capacity.
States often attempt to extend services beyond their institutional capacity, it argues.
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