What is an institutional diagnostic?
Economic Development & Institutions programme is developing a diagnostic framework that will help identify the institutional challenges a country faces in boosting development and economic outcomes, and as such highlights where efforts should be spent to enhance development activities. Francois Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics, Research Director EDI), Romain Houssa (Member, Scientific Committee – Institutional Diagnostic), Selim Raihan (Executive Director, South Asian Network On Economic Modeling), and Finn Tarp (University of Copenhagen) discuss the work EDI has piloted in four countries: Bangladesh, Benin, Mozambique, and Tanzania, to develop a growth-oriented institutional diagnostic toolkit:
