Understanding how national development planning (NDP) shapes public institutions and procedures for development: the case of Colombia

IF 2.3 Q2 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

World Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI:10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100701

Fabian Telch

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This article explores how national development planning (NDP) shapes the institutions and processes for coordinating multi-level strategic planning of public organizations for development in Colombia, drawing on the views of local NDP scholars and practitioners. This article applies a strategic planning lens to analyze the influence of NDP in public organizations, based on the data from 21 interviews of Colombian scholars and key experts. I found that NDP works as the State brain to think about cross-cutting issues and as a participative mechanism to foster the continuity of an implicit development agenda across public organizations. Additionally, the national planning agency DNP has worked as an elite school of dedicated econocrats that shapes the planning processes of public organizations, despite challenges linked to coordination and assessment of development processes, decentralizing the state capacity and a self-colonized way of thinking. My findings are of value to development scholars and decision-makers, particularly in Global South countries.

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了解国家发展规划（NDP）如何塑造公共机构和发展程序：以哥伦比亚为例

本文借鉴哥伦比亚国家发展规划学者和实践者的观点，探讨国家发展规划（NDP）如何塑造哥伦比亚公共组织协调多层次战略规划的制度和过程。本文基于21位哥伦比亚学者和关键专家的访谈数据，运用战略规划的视角来分析NDP在公共组织中的影响。我发现，新发展计划作为国家大脑思考跨领域问题，并作为一种参与机制，在公共组织中促进隐性发展议程的连续性。此外，尽管在协调和评估发展过程、分散国家权力和自我殖民思维方式等方面存在挑战，国家规划机构DNP仍作为专门经济学家的精英学校，塑造了公共组织的规划过程。我的发现对发展学者和决策者很有价值，尤其是对全球南方国家。

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World Development Perspectives Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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期刊介绍： World Development Perspectives is a multi-disciplinary journal of international development. It seeks to explore ways of improving human well-being by examining the performance and impact of interventions designed to address issues related to: poverty alleviation, public health and malnutrition, agricultural production, natural resource governance, globalization and transnational processes, technological progress, gender and social discrimination, and participation in economic and political life. Above all, we are particularly interested in the role of historical, legal, social, economic, political, biophysical, and/or ecological contexts in shaping development processes and outcomes.