they have also paid special attention to expanding social opportunities by setting policy priorities nurturing selected industries fostering statemarket complementarities committing to longterm reforms having strong political leadership learning by doing and boosting public investment getting policies and policy priorities right raises the equally important issue of getting policymaking right governing institutions and policies are profoundly and inextricably linked one cannot succeed without the other it is thus important to have policy processes managed by committed people in effective and responsive government structures policies also change at different stages of development at early stages for example many countries prioritize job creation and poverty reduction