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  • Trust, Voice, and Incentives

    Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa

    by Hana Brixi, Ellen Lust, Michael Woolcock ...
    This report examines the role of incentives, trust, and engagement as critical determinants of service delivery performance in MENA countries. Focusing on education and health, the report illustrates how the weak external and internal accountability undermines policy implementation and service delivery performance and how such a cycle of poor performance can be counteracted. Case studies of local ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Development

    Navigating Humanity's Greatest Challenge

    by Michael Woolcock ...
    Whether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international development transforms not only societies and economies but also key ideas about how the world works and how problems should be solved.In this compelling book, Michael Woolcock demonstrates that achieving peace and prosperity for all is supremely contingent and often contentious: the means and ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Case for Case Studies

    Methods and Applications in International Development

    Edited by Jennifer Widner, Michael Woolcock, Daniel Ortega Nieto ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    This book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently 'loose' methodological moorings; and second, between the scholarly community advancing methodological frontiers in case study research and the users of case studies in development policy and practice. It draws on the contributors' collective experience at this nexus, but the underlying issues ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • New Mediums, Better Messages?

    How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy are Changing International Development

    Edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Social Sustainability in Development

    Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century

    by Patrick Barron, Louise Cord, José Cuesta, Espinoza, Michael Woolcock ...
    Series series New Frontiers of Social Policy
    All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society. Development can promote societies where all people can thrive, but the change process can be complex, challenging, and socially contentious. Continued progress toward sustainable development is not guaranteed. The current overlapping ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Trust, Voice, and Incentives

    Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa

    by Hana Brixi, Ellen Lust, Michael Woolcock ...
    This report examines the role of incentives, trust, and engagement as critical determinants of service delivery performance in MENA countries. Focusing on education and health, the report illustrates how the weak external and internal accountability undermines policy implementation and service delivery performance and how such a cycle of poor performance can be counteracted. Case studies of local ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Popular Representations of Development

    Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media

    Edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies.Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Building State Capability

    Evidence, Analysis, Action

    by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Legal Pluralism and Development

    Scholars and Practitioners in Dialogue

    Edited by Brian Z. Tamanaha, Caroline Sage, Michael Woolcock ...
    Previous efforts at legal development have focused almost exclusively on state legal systems, many of which have shown little improvement over time. Recently, organizations engaged in legal development activities have begun to pay greater attention to the implications of local, informal, indigenous, religious and village courts or tribunals, which often are more efficacious than state legal ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • God's People and the Seduction of Empire

    Hearing God’s call in the modern age

    by Graham Turner ...
    Foreword by Michael Woolcock (World Bank & Lecturer at Harvard University)“An accessible, radical and rare example of the aliveness and relevance of both the Old and New Testaments. Allow your faith to be energised and made passionate by reflecting on the insights that are brought to you in this book.”— Ann Morisy, Community Theologian and AuthorAs human beings we are continually seduced by the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    How Universities Die

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    'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - GuardianThere is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be ... Read more

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  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
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