Solutions when the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development
Published By: Center for Global Development | Published Date: September, 01 , 2002The welfare of the poor turns in large measure not only on technocratic development “policies”, but the effective delivery of key public services, core elements of which require thousands of face-to-face discretionary transactions (“practices”) by service providers. The importance of (often idiosyncratic) “practices” was largely ignored in the 1960s and 70s, however, as planners in developing countries sought to rapidly emulate the service delivery mechanisms of the developed countries, namely standardized (top-down) “programs” managed by a centralized civil service bureaucracy.
Author(s): Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett | Posted on: Jan 22, 2016 | Views() | Download (121)