Lo atamos con alambre

Rodrik escribe un paper cortito y provocador en contra del dogma de las best practices en el desarrollo internacional:

I shall argue that dealing with the institutional landscape in developing economies requires a second-best mindset. In such settings, a focus on best-practice institutions not only creates blind spots, leading us to overlook reforms that might achieve the desired ends at lower cost, it can also backfire. I will elaborate on this point using illustrations from four areas: contract enforcement, entrepreneurship, trade openness, and macroeconomic stability.

Vale la pena darle una ojeada. En materia de política comercial, el trabajo reivindica a aquellos países que se atrevieron a encarar modelos de desarrollo adaptados a su propia idiosincracia (¡o sea que pasa a engrosar la mitad de la biblioteca que usaremos para defender nuestro futuro trabajo!).