Development linkages can strengthen the very patronage relations they aim to override

Evidence

And most severely of all, even if the backward linkages do link, either in the way that Hirschman envisaged, or in some other way, they can do so in such a way as actually to strengthen those social and political relations — the hierarchical relations of patronage and so of ‘corruption’ that Hirschman, like Adam Smith, so disliked — which it is their purpose to override. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1573