State Capacity and Development: Comparative Evidence from the Green Revolution

• In Event: State Capacity and Historical Political Economy

Brief Overview

What is the role of state capacity in development? With a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the green revolution, we show that state capacity played a critical role in long-term technological progress and economic development in agriculture.

Authors

• Aditya Dasgupta, University of California, Merced

• Ada Johnson-Kanu, University of California, Merced