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On October 27, 2009, Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter delivered the closing remarks at CIPE’s "Democracy that Delivers" conference, which are now presented in this Economic Reform Feature Service article. To an audience in Washington, DC and via the Internet to several hundred attendees at CIPE’s Egypt office in Cairo, Dr. Slaughter addressed how democratic institutions require the same conditions as functioning markets: strong stakeholders, merit-based preferences, transparency, and self-reliance. Countries that commit to deliver results are precisely those countries to stand with, support, and assist in development. In the end, developing a democracy that delivers is up to the citizens in strong market economies.

"Those same conditions that allow for the creativity and entrepreneurship which make markets work are also the same mechanisms that build a vibrant civil society and the mechanisms of accountability which make democratic institutions work."
— Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter

Building Partnerships for Prosperity and Democracy

Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter
Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State

November 30, 2009

Article at a Glance:

Democracies that commit to deliver results as well as hold • elections, that also build the institutions of democracy and of strong markets which are necessary to deliver results – those are precisely the countries to stand with and help in their development.
If we do not couple economic growth with the development • of democratic institutions, then we will see greater instability, precisely because we’ve taken those first steps toward democracy and we haven’t accompanied it with market growth.

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