Getting Good Government: Capacity Building in the Public Sectors of Developing Countries (Harvard Studies in International Development)

Book Overview

The creation and preservation of capable states is a lengthy, laborious, and multifaceted process, fraught with opportunities for failure and misspent resources. It requires time, commitment, innovative ideas, consensus building, new rules of the game, efficient design and resource allocation in technical assistance, and considerable good luck. By the mid-1990s, the imperative to improve government performance had been added to the development agenda precisely because of greater awareness that neither markets nor democracies could function well or perhaps function at all unless governments efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness are improved.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674354192
• ISBN13: 9780674354197
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.8"