Rising standards for accurately inferring the impact of development projects has not been matched by equivalently rigorous procedures for guiding decisions about whether and how similar results might
The plight of the Affordable Care Act Web site has focused attention on a problem that seldom receives it — the absence of good management in the U.S. government.
Many development initiatives fail to improve performance because they promote isomorphic mimicry—governments change what they look like, not what they do.
Senior government executives make many decisions, and not-infrequently these are difficult.
The influence of early events in the history of a country, a social phenomenon, or an organization on later developments has received significant attention in many social science disciplines.
Washington, D.C. is again in the grip of its long-running budgetary soap opera.
The federal government shutdown has done serious harm to the public and threatens to create even more havoc as it veers toward a once unthinkable US default next week.
Whatever loathing voters feel toward Washington, D.C., it is a fair bet they make an exception for America’s national parks — immortalized by Ken Burns in the miniseries “America’s Best Idea.’’ So it
International organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have been supporting reform initiatives in developing country governments since at least the 1980s. Various authors have
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