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Development Lending and Institution Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

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Development is a process which involves change, change from a state of under-development to better conditions of life. It is in terms of this process that the term “developing nations” is used to describe the countries with a backward economy which they are in the process of developing. If development involves change, the institution-building that goes with it can also be described as institutional change. Development lending is thus, by definition, linked with institutional change. Any development needs institutions that meet its operational requirements, and the creation of such institutions often affects vested interests. Thus development lending and institutional change often involve conflict between reformers and those with vested interests within the borrower country.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1975

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page 122 note 1 The others are The Addis Ababa Bank, with 19 branches, and Banco di Roma, with 8 branches; the first is private, the second is a branch of a foreign public bank. The total number of commercial bank branches in 1963 was 22.

page 115 note 2 Increased to 923 upon the accession of Mauritius to the second Yaoundé Agreement in 1972.