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