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Many development initiatives fail to improve performance because they promote isomorphic mimicry—governments change what they look like, not what they do. This article proposes a new approach to doing development, Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA), which contrasts with standard approaches...
Rising standards for accurately inferring the impact of development projects has not been matched by equivalently rigorous procedures for guiding decisions about whether and how similar results might be expected elsewhere. These ‘external validity’ concerns are especially pressing for ‘complex’...
– Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation
In many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term task: countries like Haiti or Liberia will take many decades to reach even a...
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– Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
This article argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending that it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the ‘fractured cities’ perspective that has widely come to epitomize the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an...
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– African Development in an Urban World
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African Development in an Urban World
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African Development in an Urban World
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– Some Policy Implications of Geography
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African Development in an Urban World
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African Development in an Urban World
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– Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria
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African Development in an Urban World
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African Development in an Urban World
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African Development in an Urban World
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– Urban Governance and the Politics of Popular Livelihoods in Nigeria
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African Development in an Urban World
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– Building and Belonging in African Cities
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African Development in an Urban World
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African Development in an Urban World
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