An institutional approach to local economic development: The case of sublocational initiatives in three districts in Kenya

Regional Development Dialogue

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 94-115

  Schilder, Ard ^a   Boeve, Bram ^a  

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DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVELOPMENT PLANNING; GOVERNMENT ROLE; INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS; LOCAL DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; RURAL PLANNING; SUBLOCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES;

KENYA;

EID: 0030391281     PISSN: 02506505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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2. Owen E. Hughes, Public Management and Administration (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
3. Note that the Weberian public sector model emerged during a time when scientific management - associated with the name of Taylor - was popular in the private sector. Scientific management stressed the importance of standardizing work and controlling the maintenance of the standards set.
4. World Competitiveness Report and "Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Measures," Economics and Politics (November 1995).
5. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Public Management Developments (Paris: PUMA, 1991).
6. The remarks made by Commons in 1934 on the place of institutional economics in that respect still seem to hold. See John R. Commons, Institutional Economics (1934).
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8. Ibid., p. 361.
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14. M. Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (New York: Macmillan Press, 1990).
15. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), The East Asian Miracle; Economic Growth and the Role of Economic Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
16. North, "Economic Performance Through Time," p. 366.
17. Ibid., p. 367.
18. Ibid., p. 364.
19. J. Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934, c1961 printing) p. 72.
20. Ibid., pp. 85-7.
21. D. C. North, "Institutions and Productivity in History" in C. Ponti and R. Scazzieri, eds., Production Networks: Market Rules and Social Norms (Bologna: University of Bologna, 1994), pp. 5-22, especially p. 6.
22. Ibid., p. 6.
23. Ibid.
24. D. C. North, "Institutions and Credible Commitment," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 149(1:1993):11-23.
25. Note that this confirms the "appropriate technology" stand that the introduction of technology in developing countries is surrounded by more than "technological problems". Apart from appropriate technology literature, "endogenous growth theory" also recognizes the complementary nature of technology and institutions.
26. Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development, see chapter 3.
27. North, " Economic Performance Through Time," p. 366.
28. Government of Kenya (GOK), District Focus of Rural Development Strategy (DFRDS) (revised version) (Nairobi: Office of the President, 1995), p. 17.
29. Ibid., pp. 17-8.
30. Note that the initial proposals of the SLDCs show a lack of professionalism, comparable to the situation in Kilifi.
31. The annual annexes are supplementary policy frameworks to the three-year development programmes of the GOK.
32. This is also stated by IFAD itself: "Moreover, in IFAD-financed projects, beneficiary participation through the involvement of farmers' groups, etc. has not been elicited at project identification and design stages. Instead, it has been brought to bear during the project implementation stage, which has reduced the extent and impact of beneficiary participation. The experience with irrigation components under a number of projects provides testimony to the perils of not involving the beneficiaries from the earliest stages of planning development." (IFAD, "Republic of Kenya Country Portfolio Review" (Working Paper; no. 12) Nairobi, 1995, p. 6).
33. Three out of sixteen SLDCs exchanged views before the LDC meetings and two of them said they had proposed common projects in the past.
34. For a more extensive and detailed overview, the report is available on request from the authors of this article.
35. The procurement of these materials is organized centrally by the national tender board.
36. North, "Economic Performance Through Time," p. 366.