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– Doing Too Much Too Soon
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Building State Capability
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This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
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Building State Capability
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...
– Knowledge, Entrepreneurial, and Political
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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– The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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– Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in Brazil
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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– The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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– The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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