The Constitution of Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Constituting Development

   1. Constituting Development

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 1-10

3. State Governance and Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Postwar Interpretations of Development

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 13-19

   3. The Aid Effectiveness Puzzle

      • Krister Andersson, Clark Gibson, Elinor Ostrom

      Pages 21-38

   4. The State as a Concept in Development

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 39-52

   5. The State as the Means to Development

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 53-62

4. Institutions and Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. The Constitutional Foundations of Development

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 65-79

   3. Adaptive Development and Institutional Problem-Solving

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 81-91

   4. Institutions, Market Exchange, and Development

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 93-101

5. Crafting Constitutional Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Crafting the Institutions for a Problem-Solving Society

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 105-119

   3. Crafting New Institutions on Indigenous Foundations

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 121-129

   4. Toward a Democratic Civilization for the Twenty-First Century

      • Sujai Shivakumar

      Pages 131-134

6. Back Matter

   Pages 135-180

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Examining the foundations of development, Shivakumar describes how societies can reconstitute themselves to improve their developmental well-being. He argues that the unitary state focus in theory and practice limits the creative potential of individuals to improve their mutual well-being through crafting capabilities for self-governance. This is a significant contribution to current discussions on institutional foundations of development, providing practical guidance on what it means to constitute a government that facilitates rather than impedes progress.

• constitution
• governance
• government
• Institution
• development policy

"If we really are serious about wiping out poverty in the 21st Century, we must re-think "development" so that it is more responsive to the people who need it most. A good place to start is this impassioned and carefully argued brief that the institutions necessary for economic progress cannot be imposed but must come from the bottom-up from the local networks of trust, cooperation, and consensus that ordinary people have created in the face of the social, legal, and economic discrimination that stymies the developing world." - Hernando de Soto, author, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

SUJAI SHIVAKUMAR is an official of the U.S. National Academies' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP). He is co-author with Elinor Ostrom of Aid, Incentives, and Sustainability - An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation, a major report for Sida, Sweden's aid agency.

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