Deals and Development

Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development, and a senior fellow of BREAD. He has been part of the team producing many World Bank reports, including World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development, and World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for the Poor.In addition he has authored (alone or with one of his 22 co-authors) over 50 papers published in refereed journals, chapters in books, or as articles, as least some of which are sometimes cited. In 2017, he published Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action (co-authored with Matt Andrews and Michael Woolcock) with Oxford University Press.Kunal Sen is Professor of Development Economics in the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, and Joint Research Director of the DFID-UK funded Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre. His current research is on the political economy of development. Kunal Sen's recent authored books are The Political Economy of India's Growth Episodes and Out of the Shadows? The Informal Sector in Post-Reform India. He has won the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications.Eric Werker is Associate Professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and academic lead from SFU to the Canadian International Resources and Development Institute. He researches how less developed countries can build more thriving and inclusive private sectors, particularly when they are rich in natural resources, and how international actors can play a positive role in creating successful societies. In previous roles, Eric was on the faculty of Harvard Business School, ran the International Growth Centre Liberia program, and worked as a consulting economist at Conservation International and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

• 1: Lant Pritchett, Kunal Sen, and Eric Werker: Deals and development - An introduction to the conceptual framework2: Eric Werker and Lant Pritchett: Deals and development in a resource-dependent, fragile state: The political economy of growth in Liberia 1960-20143: Jonathan Said and Khwima Singini: Powerbrokers and patronage: Why Malawi has failed to structurally transform and deliver inclusive growth4: Mirza Hassan and Selim Raihan: Navigating the deals world: The politics of economic growth in Bangladesh5: Tim Kelsall and Heng Seiha: Not minding the gap: Unbalanced growth and the hybrid political settlement in Cambodia6: Robert Darko Osei, Charles Ackah, George Domfe, and Michael Danquah: Political settlements and structural change: Why growth has not been transformational in Ghana7: Badru Bukenya and Sam Hickey: Dominance and deals in Africa: How politics shapes Uganda's transition from growth to transformation8: Pritish Behuria and Tom Goodfellow: The disorder of miracle growth in Rwanda: Understanding the limitations of transitions to open ordered development9: Kunal Sen, Sabyasachi Kar, and Jagadish Prasad Sahu: The stroll, the trot, and the sprint of the elephant: Understanding Indian growth episodes10: Kunal Sen and Matthew Tyce: The politics of structural (de)transformation: The unravelling of Malaysia and Thailand's dualistic deals strategies11: Lant Pritchett, Kunal Sen, and Eric Werker: Searching for a 'recipe' for episodic development