The limits of institutional reform in development : changing rules for realistic solutions /

Andrews, Matt, 1972-

The limits of institutional reform in development : changing rules for realistic solutions / Matt Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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"--

9781107016330

2012029381


Institution building--Developing countries.
Economic development--Developing countries.
Desarrollo económico Países en desarrollo.


Developing countries--Economic conditions.
Países en desarrollo--Condiciones económicas.
Países en desarrollo--Política económica.

HC 59.7 / A568l 2013

338.9009172/4