| Description |
1 online resource (35 pages) : digital, PDF file |
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Carnegie papers |
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Working papers (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Eight insights -- A second generation -- Continuing uncertainties -- The hard road from insight to practice |
| Summary |
Since emerging as a new donor enthusiasm in the 1990s, governance support has become a major area of aid to developing countries. The idea that remedying debilitating patterns of inefficient, corrupt, and unaccountable governance will unlock developmental progress appeals not just to aid providers but also to ordinary people throughout the developing world who are angry at unresponsive and poorly functioning states. Yet despite the natural appeal of improving governance, it has proved challenging in practice. Many initial assumptions about the task have run aground on the shoals of countervailing realities. As a result, aid practitioners have begun accumulating important insights about how to improve governance aid. Even as governance assistance progresses, it struggles with several continuing uncertainties. The empirical case that improved governance is necessary for development progress is less straightforward than many aid practitioners would wish. The increasing pressure faced by most aid organizations for rapid, clearly measurable results sometimes works against sophisticated governance assistance. Larger international aid trends, especially the rise of new donors with other priorities, threaten to weaken the governance agenda. Fully operationalizing these insights and overcoming the uncertainties will be hard. But the central promise of governance assistance -- finally getting to the heart of the development challenge -- is great enough to justify the effort and to ensure that even partial success will be worthwhile |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 5, 2011) |
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"Democracy and Rule of Law." |
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"November 2011." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-33) |
| Subject |
Nation-building -- Developing countries
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Nation-building.
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Developing countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gramont, Diane de
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Democracy and Rule of Law Program (U.S.)
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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