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Relative Unimportance of Economic Growth for Human Development in Developing Democracies: Cross-Sectional Evidence from the States of India
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The Relative Unimportance of Economic Growth for Human
Development in Developing Democracies:
Cross-Sectional Evidence from the States of India
Devin Joshi
University of Washington
Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association,
August 30th-September 2nd, 2007.
Abstract: This paper examines the relative impacts of economic growth and good governance on human development (HD) performance in the sub-national states of India from the 1980s to the early 2000s to test whether the strong and positive impact good governance has had on HD in the Indian state of Kerala is anomalous or typical. The paper begins with a bounded and theoretically developed conceptualization of good governance to cover the three core dimensions of leadership priorities, state capacity, and policy implementation. Measures of these three core dimensions taken from recent field study in India are then compiled into a good governance index suited to the specific context of federal India’s sub-national states over the last three decades. Employing cross-sectional regression analysis and incorporating checks for robustness, we find that in almost every case good governance explains more of human development outcomes (in education, health, and longevity) than does economic growth, per capita investment, or per capita incomes.
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The Relative Unimportance of Economic Growth for Human
Development in Developing Democracies:
Cross-Sectional Evidence from the States of India
Devin Joshi
University of Washington
Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association,
August 30th-September 2nd, 2007.
Abstract: This paper examines the relative impacts of economic growth and good
governance on human development (HD) performance in the sub-national states
of India from the 1980s to the early 2000s to test whether the strong and positive
impact good governance has had on HD in the Indian state of Kerala is anomalous
or typical. The paper begins with a bounded and theoretically developed
conceptualization of good governance to cover the three core dimensions of
leadership priorities, state capacity, and policy implementation. Measures of these
three core dimensions taken from recent field study in India are then compiled into
a good governance index suited to the specific context of federal India’s sub-
national states over the last three decades. Employing cross-sectional regression
analysis and incorporating checks for robustness, we find that in almost every
case good governance explains more of human development outcomes (in
education, health, and longevity) than does economic growth, per capita
investment, or per capita incomes.
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