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The limits of institutional reform in development : changing rules for realistic solutions / Matt Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107016330
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9009172/4 23
LOC classification:
  • HC59.7 .A7945 2013
Other classification:
  • BUS068000
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Change rules, change governments, and develop?; 2. Deconstructing the puzzling evidence of reform; 3. Overlooking the change context; 4. Reforms as overspecified and oversimplified solutions; 5. Limited engagement, limited change; 6. What you see is not what you get (expecting limits); 7. Problem-driven learning sparks institutional change; 8. Finding and fitting solutions that work; 9. Broad engagement, broader (and deeper) change; 10. Reforming rules of the development game itself.
Summary: "This book explains why many institutional reforms in developing countries have limited success and suggests ways to overcome these limits"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Normal Collection International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) HC59.7 .A7945 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 200130192021
Normal Collection Joint Command and Staff College General Stacks JQ1875 .I55 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 5717/21 Available jcsc001449

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Change rules, change governments, and develop?; 2. Deconstructing the puzzling evidence of reform; 3. Overlooking the change context; 4. Reforms as overspecified and oversimplified solutions; 5. Limited engagement, limited change; 6. What you see is not what you get (expecting limits); 7. Problem-driven learning sparks institutional change; 8. Finding and fitting solutions that work; 9. Broad engagement, broader (and deeper) change; 10. Reforming rules of the development game itself.

"This book explains why many institutional reforms in developing countries have limited success and suggests ways to overcome these limits"-- Provided by publisher.

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