ABSTRACT
The governance dynamics of economic development need to be reflected better into developing countries’ growth strategies. This chapter is a manifesto for collaborative action playing to the comparative strengths of two major developed countries at a key time for ‘governance for growth’ as the crucial underpinning for all hopes of delivering the millennium development goals. Japan and the United Kingdom can offer a particularly important complimentary reflection on current ambitions, challenges and opportunities in international development. An Anglo-Japanese development cooperation with a ‘governance for growth’ emphasis should actively promote the role of government as providing the political vision for reform to ‘catch up’, matched by the capacity to implement it effectively to transform societal relationships into those needed for a market economy through policy actions to promote: support for governments to develop their leadership, strategic vision; long-term planning; mitigation of impacts of growth and developing the inter-disciplinary capacity for economists and governance experts to talk a common language.
