Comments on: The local state origins of national economic development /2019/12/17/the-local-state-origins-of-national-economic-development/ A Critical Perspective On Development Economics Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Problems with a bottom-up approach to governance reform: Evidence from India – 黑料社区 /2019/12/17/the-local-state-origins-of-national-economic-development/comment-page-1/#comment-6213 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:28:27 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=4136#comment-6213 […] sub-national governments always 鈥済enuinely inclusive鈥? Unfortunately not.聽 In India, they are haemorrhaging devolved finances, increasing […]

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]]> By: When does state-permeated capitalism work? – 黑料社区 /2019/12/17/the-local-state-origins-of-national-economic-development/comment-page-1/#comment-5297 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:12:01 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=4136#comment-5297 […] on the subnational level, very often based on close informal and reciprocal cooperation between local or regional authorities and large companies based in these regions. These coalitions form an informal system of checks and […]

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]]> By: milfordbateman /2019/12/17/the-local-state-origins-of-national-economic-development/comment-page-1/#comment-4398 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 10:55:31 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=4136#comment-4398 Dear Professor Aggarwal, thanks for your comment. My understanding is that planning in China is actually no longer top-down because in the 1980s, out of desperation as central planning was seen to be quite ineffective, responsibility for development in China was given over to the cities and other sub-national governments. Since then it鈥檚 very much been a 鈥榖ottom-up鈥 process of development with minimal central government input, as I saw myself as team leader on a UK government advisory project in the early 2000s. Deng admitted later on that the Chinese leadership had no idea what the local governments would do with their new responsibility to promote development, but what they did, they did extremely well as we now know (particularly in establishing nearly 7 million local government-owned TVEs in just a few years!). The exception to this bottom-up progress, moreover, is to be found in those local governments that opted to adopt a more neoliberal version of local development policy in the shape of the so-called 鈥淲enzhou model鈥; most of these local governments ended up in real trouble as market forces ran riot, speculation soared, unemployment increased and the Wenzhou experiment was more or less abandoned in the mid-2010s. While China’s experience is somewhat different from other countries and regions where the local developmental state operated, the fact remains that it was the activities of sub-national state institutions far more than central ones that account for China’s massive success.

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]]> By: Aradhna Aggarwal /2019/12/17/the-local-state-origins-of-national-economic-development/comment-page-1/#comment-4382 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:07:48 +0000 http://developingeconomics.org/?p=4136#comment-4382 Dear Sir

I beg to differ at least in the context of the Asian Tigers. I have been working on the development process of these countries where the planning process is highly top down. China s fiscal decenrialisation itself is the outcome of its top down approach. These are very much development states who drive the local governments to achieve the briader national objectives.

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