A Development Consensus Reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda

African Governance and Development Institute WP/14/013

32 Pages Posted: 10 Sep 2014

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Simplice Asongu

African Governance and Development Institute

Date Written: August 8, 2014

Abstract

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural Economics (NSE) schools have to be integrated. While the latter has recognized both State and market failures but failed to provide a unified theory, the former has left the challenging concern of how institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on development and Sino-African relations in order to present the relevance of both the WC and BM in the long-term and short-run respectively. While the paper provides a unified theory by reconciling the WC and the BM to complement the NSE, it at the same time presents a case for economic rights and political rights as short-run and long-run development priorities respectively. By reconciling the WC with the BM, the study contributes at the same to macroeconomic NSE literature of unifying a development theory and to the LIP literature on institutional preferences with stages of development. Hence, the proposed reconciliation takes into account the structural and institutional realities of nations at difference stages of the process of development.

Keywords: Economic thought; Development; Beijing model; Washington Consensus; Africa

JEL Classification: B10; O11; O19; O55

Suggested Citation

Asongu, Simplice, A Development Consensus Reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda (August 8, 2014). African Governance and Development Institute WP/14/013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2493457 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2493457

Simplice Asongu (Contact Author)

African Governance and Development Institute ( email )

P.O. Box 8413
Yaoundé, 8413
Cameroon

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