Appraising institutional challenges in the early stages of development: Introduction to part 3

This last part of the volume puts together the lessons learned from the in-depth case studies undertaken within the Institutional Diagnostic Programme (IDP), and the more cursory analysis of the success development stories of South Korea and Taiwan at about the time when they were at a broadly similar level of development as our four case studies today. In doing so, the objective is to provide a kind of analytical list of potential institutional obstacles to development based on the conclusions reached in our analysis of the case study material at hand, whether those obstacles still prevail nowadays or have been removed in one way or another. We also rely on other development experiences, whenever links to them are suggested by our base material, in terms of either similarities or contrasts.