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

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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pritchett, Lant, Woolcock, Michael, Andrews, Matt
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13374