There are plenty of accounts of development failure, but what about success? In what circumstances do governments and their partners manage to produce policies that endure and meet their aims? What are the consequences of success when the result is a shift in the balance of opportunities in society towards poor people? An understanding of success is crucial for the practice of development, for theories of development and, in particular, for examining the role that governments can play.
Successes do indeed exist, often against the odds. The contributors in this collection examine nine cases of success in Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to understand what made them possible, and what will make it possible to repeat those successes in other countries and across other policy areas. This volume provides a guide to how success can be repliated and how plicy failure might be avoided.
Preface
Introduction: A Framework For Understanding Development Success; W.McCourt & A.Bebbington
Political Competition Can Be Positive: Embedding Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil; M. Melo
Managing The Indonesian Economy: Good Policies, Weak Institutions; B.Hofman
When Good Policies Go Bad, Then What? Dislodging Exhausted Industrial And Education Policies In Latin America; M.Grindle
Why Has Microfinance Been A Policy Success In Bangladesh?; D.Hulme & K.Moore
Behind 'Win-Win' - Politics, Interests And Ideologies In Successful Subsidized Housing Developments; D.Mitlin
Realizing Health Rights In Brazil: The Micropolitics Of Sustaining Health System Reform; A.Shankland & A.Cornwall
The 'Nampula Model': A Mozambique Case Of Successful Participatory Planning And Financing; D.Jackson
Explaining (And Obtaining) Development Success; A.Bebbington & W.McCourt
Bibliography
Index
ANTHONY BEBBINGTON is Professor in the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK. A geographer by training, he was previously Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, USA, and has worked at the World Bank, Overseas Development Institute, International Institute for Environment and Development and the University of Cambridge, UK.
WILLY MCCOURT is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK. He has carried out research and consultancy in Africa and Asia for national governments and development agencies such as the UK Department for International Development and the United Nations. His most recent book is The Human Factor in Governance: Managing Public Employees in Africa and Asia (2006).
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There are plenty of accounts of development failure, but what about success? In what circumstances do governments and their partners manage to produce policies that endure and meet their aims? What are the consequences of success when the result is a shift in the balance of opportunities in society towards poor people? An understanding of success is crucial for the practice of development, for theories of development and, in particular, for examining the role that governments can play.
Successes do indeed exist, often against the odds. The contributors in this collection examine nine cases of success in Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to understand what made them possible, and what will make it possible to repeat those successes in other countries and across other policy areas. This volume provides a guide to how success can be repliated and how plicy failure might be avoided.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: A Framework For Understanding Development Success; W.McCourt & A.Bebbington
Political Competition Can Be Positive: Embedding Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil; M. Melo
Managing The Indonesian Economy: Good Policies, Weak Institutions; B.Hofman
When Good Policies Go Bad, Then What? Dislodging Exhausted Industrial And Education Policies In Latin America; M.Grindle
Why Has Microfinance Been A Policy Success In Bangladesh?; D.Hulme & K.Moore
Behind 'Win-Win' - Politics, Interests And Ideologies In Successful Subsidized Housing Developments; D.Mitlin
Realizing Health Rights In Brazil: The Micropolitics Of Sustaining Health System Reform; A.Shankland & A.Cornwall
The 'Nampula Model': A Mozambique Case Of Successful Participatory Planning And Financing; D.Jackson
Explaining (And Obtaining) Development Success; A.Bebbington & W.McCourt
Bibliography
Index
Authors
ANTHONY BEBBINGTON is Professor in the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK. A geographer by training, he was previously Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, USA, and has worked at the World Bank, Overseas Development Institute, International Institute for Environment and Development and the University of Cambridge, UK.
WILLY MCCOURT is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK. He has carried out research and consultancy in Africa and Asia for national governments and development agencies such as the UK Department for International Development and the United Nations. His most recent book is The Human Factor in Governance: Managing Public Employees in Africa and Asia (2006).
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