Over the last four decades, the Indonesian state has effectively combined rapid economic growth with significant reductions in poverty, i.e. pro-poor growth. This paper argues that the effective reduction of poverty resulted from rapid agricultural growth. This in turn was the result of a...

It is hypothesized in this paper that the way by which a ruling elite extracts its resources significantly influences the evolution of state-related institutions. Specifically, if the ruling elite must construct a penetrating set of institutions to extract revenue and in order to encourage...

Less developed nations are plagued by significant economic coordination problems. Solutions to these problems will be developmental (in an economic sense) if national economic interests dominate government policy-making. The construction of a national economic interest in economic growth occurs...