Working with the grain
Subtitle: integrating governance and growth in development strategies
By: Brian Levy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780199363803; 9780199363810
Subjects: Democratization; Economic development
Description: If you want to understand how politics, institutions, and policy interact with each other to produce economic success or failure - not over the very long run when we are all dead, but in the shorter run that affects us all - there are few books that pack as much insight as this one. Brian Levy is a practitioner who can theorize as well as any scholar. But the real value added of this book is the practical and pragmatic approach it brings to institutional reform." Dani Rodrik, Albert Hirschman Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: The search for a useful development paradigm; title: Constructing a typology; title: The edge of chaos; title: The dominant trajectory in action; title: Personalized competition in action; title: Virtuous circles in action; title: Patterns of governance and growth; title: Function versus form in public sector reform; title: Transparency and participation : getting the fit right; title: Multi-stakeholder governance and the private sector; title: Governance and development ? deconstructing the discourse; title: Navigating the development knife-edge.