The Complex Network of Public Policies : An Empirical Framework for Identifying their Relevance in Economic Development

Castaneda, Gonzalo ; Iniguez, Gerardo ; Chavez-Juarez, Florian

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: public policy;    development;    governance;   

RP-ID  :  112906

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents an innovativemethodology for discovering policies that are consistentwith economic development. A development footprint narrativeis advanced to suggest that laggard countries can improvetheir good overall economic performance when tracking policyindicators of more advances but structurally similareconomies. This narrative is converted in a workable policyguideline through the use of a complex network of publicpolicies. The main results generated when the model iscalibrated with a panel of countries in all incomecategories for the period 2006-2012 are as follows: (i)public policies are context dependent; (ii) there aredifferent development modes that any country can undertake;(iii) policy interventions within each mode are part of aconsistent package and, thus, they should not be implementedin isolation; and (iv) bosting public governance indicatorsdo not seem to be important for the poorest countries ofincome group 4, but this type of actions are very criticalin upper-middle income countries of group 2.