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

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and Matt Andrews

No wp-2012-063, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term task. Countries like Haiti or Liberia will take many decades to reach even a moderate capability country like India, and millennia to reach the capability of Singapore.

Keywords: Economic development; Economic policy; Organizational behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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