ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on national economic development in the context of democracy primarily in Latin American and English-speaking democracies between the early 1980s and mid-1998. It highlights economic development policies devised in the nations have followed the requisite structural change in the administrative sector. The chapter also focuses on three countries in the regions, identifying the administrative reforms they have implemented and the extent to which they have accelerated, promoted, and indeed, impeded economic development. The military government that gave way to the Chilean transition to democracy in 1988 had initiated a number of administrative reforms designed to promote economic development. Indeed, administrative reform has been necessary to ensure that the development takes place, and in some instances structural reforms have been required, particularly if proponents of the status quo would remain as obstacles to change. Alternatively, some progressive agencies have been assigned new responsibilities.
