Institutions: top down or bottom up?

By William R. Easterly. 2008

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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “Failure to appreciate variation across space or to build on well-functioning elements in existing systems has often contributed to the emergence of parallel systems (Easterly, 2008), the maintenance of which is complex and costly.”
Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets: evidence from Ethiopia (2008, background): “The lack of experience led even respected scholars to view interventions to register land as paradigmatic examples of a long discredited top-down approach to development rather than ways to empower land users (Easterly 2008).”
Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “Land titling has also been portrayed as an example of naı̈ve top-down approaches which, rather than responding to real grassroots needs, prescribe “solutions” without a thorough diagnosis (Easterly 2008).”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “Frey and Stutzer (2002), and more recently Dolan, Peasgood, and White (2008) provide extensive overviews about the literature on subjective-well being.”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, unknown): “By contrast, advocates of the new thrust in development (e.g. Collier; Easterly, 2008; Powell, 2008) emphasize bottomup, market-based strategies for the endogenous transformation of LDCs and argue that the societies of the bottom billion may best be rescued through the self-reliant efforts of poor…”
Governance Institutions and Economic Activity (2009, background): “The biologist Richard Dawkins had similar advice for his colleagues when they tried to understand the role of some specific feature of an animal or plant: “Evolution is smarter than you are” (quoted by Easterly 2008).”