A major reason why less developed countries fail to develop is the structural exclusion of large segments of their population from their economic, social and political development. In my estimation, roughly three billion people—one out of every two in the developing world—face discrimination in how their governments and markets work. This institutional bias has a dramatic impact on access to education, security and the rule of law, and to opportunities to advance.

In this two-fold post, guestblogger Seth Kaplan discusses recent perspectives on the g7+ processes since the endorsement of the New Deal by fragile states. In his first blog post he looked at the New Deal’s emergence as part of the bottom-up statebuilding paradigm and in this second one he provides his predictions on the process.