Growth makes states. This is amazing. I'll add that a quick path to growth is, perhaps, modernisation.
Part of the trap we've found ourself is that the country is a natural state moonlighting as a modern one because we inherited these perfunctory institutions from the Brits.
It is easy to think about growth and development as a preventative panacea to security challenges in a developing environment. However, given the current security landscape and the acknowledged lack of state capacity here, is it possible to have growth as a corrective measure? Will the breakdown of security not hinder the diffusion of development across the country? Wondering how the government will manage that.
I hope to explicate better in a follow-up piece. My real message here is that we should not think of security in isolation (as we have been doing for the last 15 years). Security strategy must be embedded on broader development agenda that deliver better quality of life and governance. We cannot continue to hope that security and poverty can co-exist.
Growth makes states. This is amazing. I'll add that a quick path to growth is, perhaps, modernisation.
Part of the trap we've found ourself is that the country is a natural state moonlighting as a modern one because we inherited these perfunctory institutions from the Brits.
It is easy to think about growth and development as a preventative panacea to security challenges in a developing environment. However, given the current security landscape and the acknowledged lack of state capacity here, is it possible to have growth as a corrective measure? Will the breakdown of security not hinder the diffusion of development across the country? Wondering how the government will manage that.
I hope to explicate better in a follow-up piece. My real message here is that we should not think of security in isolation (as we have been doing for the last 15 years). Security strategy must be embedded on broader development agenda that deliver better quality of life and governance. We cannot continue to hope that security and poverty can co-exist.