Papers and Comments from the EG-Managed 2002 Forum Series
on the New Institutional Economics (NIE) and the Role of Institutions in
Promoting Economic Growth
About the Series
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This page provides the reader electronic access to a high
quality set of excellent and still highly current set of
papers on institutional reform issues of enduring interest
to USAID and its staff. We urge you to sample them and make
use of them in your work.
This EGAT/EG-managed series of forums held in 2002 provides
an important basis for improving USAID's delivery of foreign
assistance to promoting economic growth and development.
As the forum series helped make clear, Institutions are
of key importance to our economic growth work and USAID
staff
consulting the forum papers will find many useful suggestions
in them for incorporating institutional analysis into
our analytical, design, and implementation work.
The forums series brought together, before the critical
scrutiny of practical applications-oriented USAID audiences,
some
of the major thinkers on institutional reform today.
Authors of papers and commentators on the papers include
such luminaries as Economics Nobel Prize winner Douglass
North, Political Economist Robert Bates, Harvard Professor
Michael Kremer, Stanford Political Scientist Barry Weingast
and Peter Boettke, Director of the Mercatus Center at George
Mason University.
The first two forums focused on the basics of NIE -- formal
and informal rules of the game, transaction costs, incentive
alignment and governance structures. The third forum reviewed
the experience of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and
trade liberalization, analyzed institutional obstacles
that hampered them from benefiting more, and proposed various
institutional solutions to overcome these obstacles. Using
the framework from the first three forums, four applications
were considered for field testing for use by interested
USAID
field missions.
The methodology for testing the four applications was discussed
at the fourth forum. Results of field tests undertaken
in the Philippines for two of the applications and desk studies
conducted for the other two were reported at the fifth forum.
The Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector
(IRIS) provided services for the Forum Series. Editor for
the Series was IRIS Project Director, Clifford Zinnes, with
support from USAID’s Forums Steering Committee. In
cooperation with IRIS, the Mercatus Center at George Mason
University and its Project Director, Peter Boettke, organized
the last three forums of the series.
These forums complemented and extended the conceptual analysis
developed in the earlier ones to the key areas of the market
process, public choice and constitutional political economy
contributions to the NIE literature. They address problems
of: the use of knowledge; interest group politics; resistance
to reform, constitutional construction; in relation to
to USAID's mission.
If you have questions or encounter problems in downloading
articles, please contact Jim Elliott, jelliott@usaid.gov .
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