Four Cardinal Questions (and Answers of a Sort) : Toward Just Development in FCS
Justice and the rule of law are regularly cited as fundamental to addressing so many development challenges: poor investment climate, conflict and insecurity, gender inequality, poverty, and low human development outcomes. The role of justice insti...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/118321505892607608/Four-cardinal-questions-and-answers-of-a-sort-toward-just-development-in-FCS http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30548 |
| Summary: | Justice and the rule of law are
regularly cited as fundamental to addressing so many
development challenges: poor investment climate, conflict
and insecurity, gender inequality, poverty, and low human
development outcomes. The role of justice institutions in
underpinning development has especially come to the fore in
fragile and conflict-affected situations. The authors
suggest that there is quite a lot, but it requires starting
with different questions. Drawing from the Bank’s justice
strategy new directions in justice Reform and the experience
in the justice for the poor program, especially in fragile
and conflict-affected situations, the authors have distilled
an answer, or rather a process. Four simple questions to
guide toward the not so simple path of promoting just
development are: question 1: what is the justice problem?;
question 2: how is the justice problem being managed?;
question 3: under what conditions will more effective and
legitimate institutions to manage the justice problem
emerge?; and question 4: what is the appropriate role for
external assistance? |
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