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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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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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– An Agnostic Time Series Analysis
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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– The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific
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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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– An Overview and Introduction
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Vulnerability in Development
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– Its Design and Use for International Development Policy
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Vulnerability in Development
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– Concepts and Measurements
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Vulnerability in Development
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Vulnerability in Development
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Vulnerability in Development
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