Does Democracy Help Development
Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge), Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid (United Nations)
The causal link between democracy and development is a controversial issue. The traditional narrative held that democracy produced better governance by making government more responsive to the demands of its citizens thereby producing better policy outcomes. However the rapid development of many authoritarian countries during the 20th Century such as China, South Korea and Singapore has cast doubt on this narrative and suggests a much more complicated relationship between the two. Does democracy actually help development? Is the causality the other way round with development producing democracy? What aspects of democracy are the most important for development?
CSEP invites you to explore this complex topic with our panel of expert speakers. Dr Ha-Joon Chang is a reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. He is a world-renowned expert on the role of the state in economic development having served as a consultant to numerous governmental organisations including the World Bank, the United Nations and UK’s Department for International Development.
Dr Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid is the Deputy Director for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico. He is an expert on the development of Latin America and was previously a research associate at Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
CSEP invites you to explore this complex topic with our panel of expert speakers. Dr Ha-Joon Chang is a reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. He is a world-renowned expert on the role of the state in economic development having served as a consultant to numerous governmental organisations including the World Bank, the United Nations and UK’s Department for International Development.
Dr Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid is the Deputy Director for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico. He is an expert on the development of Latin America and was previously a research associate at Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
