Professor and Research Director, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo 

                   Professor and Associate Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University 

Time: Wednesday, September 27^th, 2017   14:00–15:00

Venue: Room 106, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

 

In recent years, there has been a new wave of interest in examining the role of state institutions in promoting economic growth and socio-economic and political development. I will discuss two sets of interrelated issues: 1) What Works in International Development and 2) Legitimizing Invisible States — particularly in some parts of the developing world where the state plays a ceremonial role.

* Key questions include:

-       How is statehood perceived and practiced in daily life?

-       How is the state “performed” and “enacted”?

-       How have external actors facilitated or constrained state capacity?

To what extent is foreign aid used as a tool to gain global influence? Using examples from Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, I will discuss various modalities of governance undertaken by the state in low-income countries by revisiting the concept of state legitimacy in relation to state scope, capacity and resilience.

 

Dr. Dan Banik is professor of political science and research director at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and Environment. His research interests include poverty, inequality, governance, legal empowerment, social protection, development aid, famine, and food security. Prof. Banik directs the interdisciplinary research program ‘Poverty and Development in the 21st Century (PAD)’ at the University of Oslo. He has been affiliated with Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law since 2010 and has previously served as the head of the Norwegian-Finnish Trust Fund in the World Bank for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD), and on the Board of the Norwegian Crown Prince and Crown Princess’s Foundation. His books include ‘The Democratic Dividend: Political Transition, Poverty and Inclusive Development in Malawi (Routledge 2016), ‘The Legal Empowerment Agenda: Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa’ (2011, Ashgate), ‘Poverty and Elusive Development’ (2010, Scandinavian University Press) and ‘Starvation and India’s Democracy’ (2009, Routledge).

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