Evaluation & development : the institutional dimension
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Evaluation & development : the institutional dimension
(World Bank series on evaluation and development)
Transaction Publishers, c1998
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Evaluation and development
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Description
This study illustrates the social and political principal that institutions matter. It explores not only how to get institutions to work efficiently, but also how to assess the proper relationship between institutions and development challenges through evaluative techniques.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION PART I: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT 1. Institutions in development: the country, research, and operational challenges 2. Institutions, markets, and development outcomes 3. Institutions, policies, and development outcomes 4. Reinvigorating state institutions PART 2: INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES 5. Fostering fiscally responsive and accountable governance: lessons from decentralization 6. Transaction cost economics and public sector rent-seeking in developing countries: toward a theory of governance failure 7. Performance contracts: a tool for improving public services? 8. Reforming budgetary institutions in Latin America: the case for a national fiscal council 19. Credible regulatory policy: options and evaluation PART 3: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL 10. Defining social capital: an integrating view 11. An institutional framework for learning from failed states 12. Learning from early childcare and education programs 13. Institutional structure and social security systems: lessons from the Chilean experience PART 4: THE IMPLICATIONS OF NEOINSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS FOR EVALUATION 14. Evaluation as an incentive instrument 15. Implications for evaluation POSTSCRIPT: THE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF EVALUATION
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