ABSTRACT
Statebuilding in war to peace transitions has economic dimensions.1 The service-delivery dimension of states depends on the existence of productive assets in order to generate revenues needed to sustain functioning institutions, including financing security, the judiciary, electoral bodies, and the monopoly of violence. The transformation dimension of states requires the development of institutions that help to produce sustained economic expansion and structural change. These include institutions to manage and enforce the reconfiguration of property rights during protracted processes of social transformation, as well as institutions to encourage the acquisition of technology and to foster innovation, to mediate conflicts of interest, and to manage the distribution of the fruits of peace, recovery, and growth in ways that sustain or develop political legitimacy.2
