The changing face of development: The elite capture of democracy

VoxDevTalk

Published 25.06.19

Democratic institutions are increasingly being captured by the elite threatening development. What can we do to change this?

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On our two year anniversary we asked a few experts to reflect over the last two years of development economics and discuss what they think have been the most important challenges and new evidence. In this VoxDev Talk, Daron Acemoglu, MIT, highlights the slide of democratic and broadly inclusive institutions.

Editor’s Note: This is part of our 2 year VoxDev anniversary series