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oapen-20.500.12657-318572022-04-26T11:21:08Z Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action Andrews, Matt Pritchett, Lant Woolcock, Michael foreign aid reform policy government politics capability development poverty pdia services Accountability bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government::JPQB Central government policies bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but kids don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity-building efforts. The book then analyzes this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back—particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem-driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past. 2017-02-24 23:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T13:51:37Z 2020-04-01T13:51:37Z 2017 book 624551 OCN: 976483623 9780198747482 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31857 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 624551.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/building-state-capability-9780198747482 Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747482.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747482.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 5b8f8357-4e82-466a-b29d-e58dc1800698 9780198747482 288 Oxford, UK Harvard University Universitas Harvardiana open access
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Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but kids don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity-building efforts. The book then analyzes this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back—particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem-driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.
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