The Role of the State and Market in Development I
POLI 211
Introduction to Development
Studies
Session 9
THE ROLE OF THE STATE AND MARKET IN
DEVELOPMENT I
Lecturer: Dr. Maame Adwoa A. Gyekye-Jandoh
Contact Information: mgyekyej@yahoo.com
Session Overview
–
Overview
•
This session discusses the role of the state in development. In
the previous session, the role of outside actors and their
policies in conjunction with the government/state in seeking
to promote development was considered. This session
considers the state’s role per se (through the government
running it) in development.
•
Should the state intervene or play a large role in the
economy? Should markets have more of a role in the
economy and development than the state? These are some
questions this session will address.
Slide 2
Session Outline
The key topics to be covered in this session are as
follows:
•
Topic One: Development Planning and the Role
of the State
•
Topic Two: Arguments in Favor of Development
Planning in Developing Countries
•
Topic Three: Arguments against Development
Planning in Developing Countries
Slide 3
Reading List
•
Todaro, Michael. 2000.
Economic Development
.
England: Pearson Education Limited.
•
Michael Todaro and Stephen Smith (2012).
“Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market,
State, and Civil Society.” p. 511-516; 524-533
Slide 4
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND
THE ROLE OF THE STATE
Topic One
Slide 5
Development Planning and the Role of
the State
•
Development Planning: What is it?
•
Development planning
, sometimes known also as economic
planning, according to (Todaro 2000: 622) involves a deliberate
governmental attempt to coordinate economic decision making
over the long run and to influence, direct, and in some cases
even control the level and growth of a nation’s principal
economic variables such as income, consumption, employment,
investment, saving, exports, and imports in order to achieve a
predetermined set of development objectives.
•
The planning process is an exercise where government first
chooses social objectives, sets various targets, and finally
organizes a framework for implementing, coordinating, and
monitoring a development plan.
•
Development plans may be either comprehensive or partial. A
comprehensive
development plan sets its targets to cover all
aspects of the national economy.
Slide 6
Development Plans
•
A
partial
plan covers only a part of the national
economy – industry, agriculture, the public sector,
the foreign sector, and others.
•
Most development plans have been drawn up and
carried out within the framework of the mixed
economies of developing countries.
•
Note that
mixed developing economies
like Ghana
are characterized by the existence of an institutional
setting in which some of the productive resources
are privately owned and operated and some are
controlled by the public sector (Todaro 2000: 623)
Slide 7
The Nature and Relevance of Development
Planning in Mixed Developing Economies
•
The Nature and Relevance of Development Planning in
Mixed Developing Economies
•
Development planning came to be accepted as an essential means of
guiding and increasing economic growth in most developing countries.
•
In mixed developing economies,
two principal components of
development planning
can be identified:
•
1. The state or government plays a role in economic development
through its deliberate use of domestic saving and foreign finance to
carry out public investment projects and to mobilize scarce resources
into areas that can be expected to make the most contribution toward
the realization of long-term economic objectives (for example, the
construction of schools, railways, hydroelectric projects, and other
components of economic infrastructure, in addition to the creation of
import-substituting industries).
Slide 8
The Nature and Relevance of
Development Planning
•
2. The government puts in place economic policy (such as
taxation, industrial licensing, tariffs, and the
manipulation of quotas, wages, interest rates, and prices)
to stimulate, direct, and in some cases even control
private economic activity in order to ensure a
harmonious relationship between the desires of private
business and the social objectives of the central
government.
•
The compromise nature of development planning in
mixed developing economies/countries between the
extremes of market operation and the control of the
central government becomes evident.
Slide 9
Sample Questions
•
Define Development Planning,
distinguishing between the two
types of development plans.
•
Explain the nature of development
planning in mixed developing
economies.
Slide 10
ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Topic Two
Slide 11
Arguments in Favour of Development
Planning in Developing Countries
•
Major Reasons or Arguments for the Adoption of Development
Planning in Developing Economies
•
The widespread acceptance of economic planning as a
development tool was due to a number of fundamental
economic and institutional arguments (Todaro 2000: 624). Here
are four major arguments.
•
1.
Market Failure
. It is argued that markets in less developed
countries (LDCs) tend to be characterized by structural and
operational imperfections. For example, prices are often
distorted. The real cost to developing societies of goods,
services, and resources, is often difficult to measure.
•
Therefore it is argued that governments have an important role
to play in integrating markets and modifying prices, because of
the failure of the market to price factors of production correctly.
Slide 12
Arguments in Favour of Development
Planning in Developing Countries (DCs)
•
The market is said to lead to a misallocation of present and future
resources or to an allocation that may not in the long-run be best
for societal interests. As Todaro (2000) highlights further, this
market failure argument is perhaps the reason given most often for
the expanded role of government/state in the LDCs.
•
2. Resource Mobilization and Allocation
. It has been argued that
developing economies cannot afford to waste their very limited
skilled human resources on unproductive ventures. Thus it is best to
employ skilled workers where their contribution will be most widely
felt.
•
Development planning can supposedly help modify the effects of
limited resources in developing economies by recognizing that
particular constraints or limitations exist and by choosing and
coordinating investment projects so that scarce factors would be
used most productively.
Slide 13
More Arguments in Favour of
Development Planning in DCs
•
3. Psychological or Attitudinal Impact
. It is argued here that a
specific development plan, which is a detailed statement of
national economic and social objectives, can have an
important psychological or attitudinal impact on a divided
population.
•
The governments of LDCs may be able to rally their people
behind them in a national campaign to get rid of poverty,
ignorance, and disease. By mobilizing popular support with a
call to all citizens to work together to build the nation, it is
argued that an enlightened government/state can best
provide the necessary incentives to overcome the divisive
forces of ethnic sectionalism, race, class, or religion, in a
common quest for widespread social and material progress.
Slide 14
More Arguments in Favour of
Development Planning in DCs
•
4. Foreign Aid
. Bilateral and multilateral foreign aid have
often had certain conditions attached, one of which is
the crafting of detailed development plans with specific
output targets for different sectors and carefully
designed investment projects.
•
Some in fact argue that the real reason why LDCs come
up with development plans is in order to receive more
foreign aid. LDCs believe that they will be able to
persuade donors to part with funds if they have a
comprehensive list of projects couched within a well-
conceived and internally consistent development plan.
Slide 15
The Importance of Development
Planning
•
Thus, centralized national planning in the form of
development plans was widely believed to offer the
essential and perhaps the only institutional and
organizational means for overcoming the major obstacles
to development and ensuring a high rate of economic
growth that is sustainable. This gave the
state/government of the LDCs an important role to play
in development.
•
Unfortunately, there was plan failure over time in many
of the LDCs. Several reasons have been given for this.
•
Question:
Research and explain the reasons for plan
failures in LDCs stated below.
Slide 16
Reasons for the Failure of
Development Plans in DCs
•
Reasons for Development Plan Failures in Many
DCs:
•
1. deficiencies in plans and their implementation
•
2. insufficient and unreliable data
•
3. unanticipated external and internal disturbances
•
4. institutional weaknesses
•
5. lack of political will
Slide 17
ARGUMENTS AGAINST DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Topic Three
Slide 18
Arguments Against Development
Planning in Developing Countries
•
As a result of the perceived failure of state/government
planning and intervention, a growing number of
economists (mostly Western), some LDC finance
ministers, and heads of major international development
organizations like World Bank and IMF began to advocate
the increased use of the market mechanism as key to
promoting economic growth, development, and greater
efficiency.
•
The decade of the 1970s witnessed a period of increased
public sector governmental activity in the pursuit of
development, while the 1980s and 1990s witnessed the
reemergence of free-market economics as part of the
ever-changing ideas regarding development issues.
Slide 19
Arguments Against Development
Planning in Developing Countries (DCs)
•
Here are a few arguments made against development planning
and government intervention in developing countries
.
•
1. Individuals may know more about their own preferences and
circumstances than the government.
•
2. Government planning may increase risk because governments
may make bigger mistakes than markets.
•
3. Development planning may be more rigid and inflexible than
private action because of the complex decision-making machinery
that characterizes most governments.
•
4. Governments may not be capable of administering detailed
plans.
•
5. Bureaucratic obstacles and government controls may hinder
private sector individual initiative that can contribute to
development.
Slide 20
More Arguments Against Development
Planning in DCs
•
6. Finally, public enterprises are often wasteful and
inefficient. It is argued that the discipline and
rewards of the market cannot be easily duplicated in
public or governmental organizations; individuals and
organizations require incentives to work, innovate,
control costs and efficiently allocate resources, which
markets do better (Todaro 2000: 641; adapted from
Nicholas Stern, September 1989, “The Economics of
Development: A Survey,”
Economic Journal
99, tab 4).
Slide 21
Additional Arguments about
Development Planning
•
Despite these arguments, you must remember that
judgments about the advantages of public/state
versus private/market economic activities and vice
versa can only be made in the context of specific
countries and their concrete situations.
•
Some socio-cultural preconditions and economic
practices must be met if there is to be a successful
use of the market for development.
•
Question:
Make a case either for or against
development planning in LDCs, giving at least three
reasons.
Slide 22
Conclusion of Session 9
•
In this session, the role of the state in development, through
development planning, has been discussed, including the
definition of development planning. We have looked at major
arguments for the adoption of development planning in
developing economies and the relevance of development
planning, considered as the solution to the poor standard of
living and conditions in developing nations.
•
In addition, some reasons for the failure of development plans
in many LDCs have been highlighted. You have also become
familiar with a few key arguments against development
planning made by scholars and development practitioners
alike.
•
In Session 10, we will examine the market as an alternative to
development planning and state intervention.
Slide 23
References
•
Todaro, Michael. 2000.
Economic Development
.
England: Pearson Education Limited.
•
Michael Todaro and Stephen Smith (2012).
“Development Policymaking and the Roles of
Market, State, and Civil Society.” p. 511-516; 524-
533
Slide 24
This session, led by Dr. Maame Adwoa A. Gyekye-Jandoh, explores the debate on the role of the state versus the market in development. It discusses development planning, arguments for and against state intervention in the economy, and key concepts related to economic decision-making and coordination. The session highlights the complexities of achieving development objectives and the considerations involved in determining the level of state involvement in economic activities.
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THE ROLE OF THE STATE AND MARKET IN DEVELOPMENT I Lecturer: Dr. Maame Adwoa A. Gyekye-Jandoh Contact Information: mgyekyej@yahoo.com College of Education School of Continuing and Distance Education 2014/2015 2016/2017
Session Overview Overview This session discusses the role of the state in development. In the previous session, the role of outside actors and their policies in conjunction with the government/state in seeking to promote development was considered. This session considers the state s role per se (through the government running it) in development. Should the state intervene or play a large role in the economy? Should markets have more of a role in the economy and development than the state? These are some questions this session will address. Slide 2
Session Outline The key topics to be covered in this session are as follows: Topic One: Development Planning and the Role of the State Topic Two: Arguments in Favor of Development Planning in Developing Countries Topic Three: Arguments against Development Planning in Developing Countries Slide 3
Reading List Todaro, Michael. 2000. Economic Development. England: Pearson Education Limited. Michael Todaro and Stephen Smith (2012). Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market, State, and Civil Society. p. 511-516; 524-533 Slide 4
Topic One DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND THE ROLE OF THE STATE Slide 5
Development Planning and the Role of the State Development Planning: What is it? Development planning, sometimes known also as economic planning, according to (Todaro 2000: 622) involves a deliberate governmental attempt to coordinate economic decision making over the long run and to influence, direct, and in some cases even control the level and growth of a nation s principal economic variables such as income, consumption, employment, investment, saving, exports, and imports in order to achieve a predetermined set of development objectives. The planning process is an exercise where government first chooses social objectives, sets various targets, and finally organizes a framework for implementing, coordinating, and monitoring a development plan. Development plans may be either comprehensive or partial. A comprehensive development plan sets its targets to cover all aspects of the national economy. Slide 6
Development Plans A partial plan covers only a part of the national economy industry, agriculture, the public sector, the foreign sector, and others. Most development plans have been drawn up and carried out within the framework of the mixed economies of developing countries. Note that mixed developing economies like Ghana are characterized by the existence of an institutional setting in which some of the productive resources are privately owned and operated and some are controlled by the public sector (Todaro 2000: 623) Slide 7
The Nature and Relevance of Development Planning in Mixed Developing Economies The Nature and Relevance of Development Planning in Mixed Developing Economies Development planning came to be accepted as an essential means of guiding and increasing economic growth in most developing countries. In mixed developing economies, two principal components of development planning can be identified: 1. The state or government plays a role in economic development through its deliberate use of domestic saving and foreign finance to carry out public investment projects and to mobilize scarce resources into areas that can be expected to make the most contribution toward the realization of long-term economic objectives (for example, the construction of schools, railways, hydroelectric projects, and other components of economic infrastructure, in addition to the creation of import-substituting industries). Slide 8
The Nature and Relevance of Development Planning 2. The government puts in place economic policy (such as taxation, industrial licensing, tariffs, and the manipulation of quotas, wages, interest rates, and prices) to stimulate, direct, and in some cases even control private economic activity in order to ensure a harmonious relationship between the desires of private business and the social objectives of the central government. The compromise nature of development planning in mixed developing economies/countries between the extremes of market operation and the control of the central government becomes evident. Slide 9
Sample Questions Define Development Planning, distinguishing between the two types of development plans. Explain the nature of development planning in mixed developing economies. Slide 10
Topic Two ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Slide 11
Arguments in Favour of Development Planning in Developing Countries Major Reasons or Arguments for the Adoption of Development Planning in Developing Economies The widespread acceptance of economic planning as a development tool was due to a number of fundamental economic and institutional arguments (Todaro 2000: 624). Here are four major arguments. 1. Market Failure. It is argued that markets in less developed countries (LDCs) tend to be characterized by structural and operational imperfections. For example, prices are often distorted. The real cost to developing societies of goods, services, and resources, is often difficult to measure. Therefore it is argued that governments have an important role to play in integrating markets and modifying prices, because of the failure of the market to price factors of production correctly. Slide 12
Arguments in Favour of Development Planning in Developing Countries (DCs) The market is said to lead to a misallocation of present and future resources or to an allocation that may not in the long-run be best for societal interests. As Todaro (2000) highlights further, this market failure argument is perhaps the reason given most often for the expanded role of government/state in the LDCs. 2. Resource Mobilization and Allocation. It has been argued that developing economies cannot afford to waste their very limited skilled human resources on unproductive ventures. Thus it is best to employ skilled workers where their contribution will be most widely felt. Development planning can supposedly help modify the effects of limited resources in developing economies by recognizing that particular constraints or limitations exist and by choosing and coordinating investment projects so that scarce factors would be used most productively. Slide 13
More Arguments in Favour of Development Planning in DCs 3. Psychological or Attitudinal Impact. It is argued here that a specific development plan, which is a detailed statement of national economic and social objectives, can have an important psychological or attitudinal impact on a divided population. The governments of LDCs may be able to rally their people behind them in a national campaign to get rid of poverty, ignorance, and disease. By mobilizing popular support with a call to all citizens to work together to build the nation, it is argued that an enlightened government/state can best provide the necessary incentives to overcome the divisive forces of ethnic sectionalism, race, class, or religion, in a common quest for widespread social and material progress. Slide 14
More Arguments in Favour of Development Planning in DCs 4. Foreign Aid. Bilateral and multilateral foreign aid have often had certain conditions attached, one of which is the crafting of detailed development plans with specific output targets for different sectors and carefully designed investment projects. Some in fact argue that the real reason why LDCs come up with development plans is in order to receive more foreign aid. LDCs believe that they will be able to persuade donors to part with funds if they have a comprehensive list of projects couched within a well- conceived and internally consistent development plan. Slide 15
The Importance of Development Planning Thus, centralized national planning in the form of development plans was widely believed to offer the essential and perhaps the only institutional and organizational means for overcoming the major obstacles to development and ensuring a high rate of economic growth that is sustainable. This gave the state/government of the LDCs an important role to play in development. Unfortunately, there was plan failure over time in many of the LDCs. Several reasons have been given for this. Question: Research and explain the reasons for plan failures in LDCs stated below. Slide 16
Reasons for the Failure of Development Plans in DCs Reasons for Development Plan Failures in Many DCs: 1. deficiencies in plans and their implementation 2. insufficient and unreliable data 3. unanticipated external and internal disturbances 4. institutional weaknesses 5. lack of political will Slide 17
Topic Three ARGUMENTS AGAINST DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Slide 18
Arguments Against Development Planning in Developing Countries As a result of the perceived failure of state/government planning and intervention, a growing number of economists (mostly Western), some LDC finance ministers, and heads of major international development organizations like World Bank and IMF began to advocate the increased use of the market mechanism as key to promoting economic growth, development, and greater efficiency. The decade of the 1970s witnessed a period of increased public sector governmental activity in the pursuit of development, while the 1980s and 1990s witnessed the reemergence of free-market economics as part of the ever-changing ideas regarding development issues. Slide 19
Arguments Against Development Planning in Developing Countries (DCs) Here are a few arguments made against development planning and government intervention in developing countries. 1. Individuals may know more about their own preferences and circumstances than the government. 2. Government planning may increase risk because governments may make bigger mistakes than markets. 3. Development planning may be more rigid and inflexible than private action because of the complex decision-making machinery that characterizes most governments. 4. Governments may not be capable of administering detailed plans. 5. Bureaucratic obstacles and government controls may hinder private sector individual initiative that can contribute to development. Slide 20
More Arguments Against Development Planning in DCs 6. Finally, public enterprises are often wasteful and inefficient. It is argued that the discipline and rewards of the market cannot be easily duplicated in public or governmental organizations; individuals and organizations require incentives to work, innovate, control costs and efficiently allocate resources, which markets do better (Todaro 2000: 641; adapted from Nicholas Stern, September 1989, The Economics of Development: A Survey, Economic Journal 99, tab 4). Slide 21
Additional Arguments about Development Planning Despite these arguments, you must remember that judgments about the advantages of public/state versus private/market economic activities and vice versa can only be made in the context of specific countries and their concrete situations. Some socio-cultural preconditions and economic practices must be met if there is to be a successful use of the market for development. Question: Make a case either for or against development planning in LDCs, giving at least three reasons. Slide 22
Conclusion of Session 9 In this session, the role of the state in development, through development planning, has been discussed, including the definition of development planning. We have looked at major arguments for the adoption of development planning in developing economies and the relevance of development planning, considered as the solution to the poor standard of living and conditions in developing nations. In addition, some reasons for the failure of development plans in many LDCs have been highlighted. You have also become familiar with a few key arguments against development planning made by scholars and development practitioners alike. In Session 10, we will examine the market as an alternative to development planning and state intervention. Slide 23
References Todaro, Michael. 2000. Economic Development. England: Pearson Education Limited. Michael Todaro and Stephen Smith (2012). Development Policymaking and the Roles of Market, State, and Civil Society. p. 511-516; 524- 533 Slide 24
