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  1. For the purpose of this essay, the term “economic development” is used synonymously with the Developmental Welfare State (DWS) or social democracy as defined in the second paragraph. Whether or not this notion of economic development brings about “true” human development is an important issue but is outside the scope of this review. The DWS framework is implicitly at the heart of the work of UN agencies such as the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and, of course, the human development project of UNDP.

  2. As discussed by Evans, under successful embedded autonomy, the state maintains sufficiently close ties to the business sector to provide important inputs, as the latter requires, without being “captured” by rent-seeking, bribery, and “giveaways.”

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Moudud, J.K. Business networks in Syria: the political economy of authoritarian resilience. Dialect Anthropol 37, 463–469 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-013-9316-z

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