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Author Andrews, Matt, 1972-

Title The limits of institutional reform in development [electronic resource] : changing rules for realistic solutions / Matt Andrews, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description xii, 254 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Institution building -- Developing countries.
Economic development -- Developing countries.
Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781107016330
9781139612203 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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