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Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

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  1. Involving local non-state capacity to improve service delivery: it can be more difficult than it appears
    by Jed Friedman in Development Impact on 2014-06-26 21:20:18

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  33. Ashis Das & Jed Friedman & Eeshani Kandpal, 2018. "Does involvement of local NGOs enhance public service delivery? Cautionary evidence from a malaria‐prevention program in India," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(1), pages 172-188, January.
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  38. Ifrah Siddique & Muhammad Azmat Hayat & Muhammad Zahid Naeem & Abdullah Ejaz & Cristi Spulbar & Ramona Birau & Toni Calugaru, 2021. "Why Do Countries Request Assistance from International Monetary Fund? An Empirical Analysis," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-19, March.
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  40. David Carment & Yiagadeesen Samy, 2017. "Exiting the fragility trap: Rethinking our approach to the world's most fragile states," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-181, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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  44. Brendan Whitty & Jessica Sklair & Paul Robert Gilbert & Emma Mawdsley & Jo‐Anna Russon & Olivia Taylor, 2023. "Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For‐profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 54(4), pages 892-917, July.
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  46. Anna Holvio, 2022. "Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income country," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-23, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  47. Andrews, Matthew & McNaught, Tim & Samji, Salimah, 2018. "Opening Adaptation Windows onto Public Financial Management Reform Gaps in Mozambique," Working Paper Series rwp18-017, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  48. Anders Fredriksson, 2020. "One Stop Shops for Public Services: Evidence from Citizen Service Centers in Brazil," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(4), pages 1133-1165, September.
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  50. Denyer Willis, Graham & Mota Prado, Mariana, 2014. "Process and Pattern in Institutional Reforms: A Case Study of the Police Pacifying Units (UPPs) in Brazil," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 232-242.
  51. Ricks, Jacob I. & Doner, Richard F., 2021. "Getting institutions right: Matching institutional capacities to developmental tasks," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
  52. Evangelia Balla & Jaap Zevenbergen & Ana Mafalda Madureira & Yola Georgiadou, 2022. "Too Much, Too Soon? The Changes in Greece’s Land Administration Organizations during the Economic Crisis Period 2009 to 2018," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-24, September.
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  54. David Carment & Yiagadeesen Samy, 2023. "Aid effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected contexts: Lessons from more than two decades of research," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-8, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  55. Kristie Drucza, 2017. "Talking About Inclusion: Attitudes and Affirmative Action in Nepal," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 35(2), pages 161-195, January.
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  58. Woolcock, Michael, 2013. "Using Case Studies to Explore the External Validity of 'Complex' Development Interventions," Working Paper Series rwp13-048, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  59. Andrews, Matt & Pritchett, Lant & Woolcock, Michael, 2017. "Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198747482.
  60. Jeremy Streatfeild, 2017. "Does This Road Go on Forever? Modelling Sustainability of Infrastructure in Developing Countries," Journal of Infrastructure Development, India Development Foundation, vol. 9(2), pages 69-81, December.
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  62. Hoey, Lesli, 2017. "Reclaiming the Authority to Plan: How the Legacy of Structural Adjustment Affected Bolivia’s Effort to Recentralize Nutrition Planning," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 100-112.
  63. Ijlal Naqvi, 2018. "Contesting access to power in urban Pakistan," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(6), pages 1242-1256, May.
  64. Dreher, Axel & Lang, Valentin & Reinsberg, Bernhard, 2024. "Aid effectiveness and donor motives," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
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  66. Andrews, Matt, 2014. "Can One Retell a Mozambican Reform Story through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation?," Working Paper Series rwp14-018, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  67. Guo, Jingyuan & Deng, Kent, 2024. "Laying off old guards to rebuild state capacity: Deng Xiaoping’s bloodless coup d’etat in post-Mao China, 1980-2000," Economic History Working Papers 126083, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
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  72. Roel Dom, 2017. "Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Silver Bullet or White Elephant," Discussion Papers 2017-01, University of Nottingham, CREDIT.
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  75. Matt Andrews, 2014. "An Ends-Means Approach to Looking at Governance," CID Working Papers 281, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
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  77. Woolcock, Michael, 2013. "Using Case Studies to Explore the External Validity of 'Complex' Development Interventions," Working Paper Series rwp13-048, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  78. Jaime DE MELO & Meriem NOUAR & Jean-marc SOLLEDER, 2017. "Integration along the Abuja road map - A progress report," Working Papers P191, FERDI.
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  86. Larson, Greg & Ajak, Peter Biar & Pritchett, Lant, 2013. "South Sudan's Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation," Working Paper Series rwp13-041, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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  90. Matt Andrews & Lant Pritchett & Michael Woolcock, 2016. "Doing Iterative and Adaptive Work," CID Working Papers 313, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
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