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Author Wiesner, Eduardo

Title Evaluation and Development : the Institutional Dimension
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (335 pages)
Series World Bank Evaluation and Development
World Bank Evaluation and Development
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT; 1. Institutions in development: the country, research, and operational challenges; 2. Institutions, markets, and development outcomes; Comments, Thráinn Eggertsson; Comments, Ishrat Husain; Floor discussion; 3. Institutions, policies, and development outcomes; Comments, Lee J. Alston; Comments, Mustapha K. Nabli; Floor discussion; 4. Reinvigorating state institutions; Comments, Robert Klitgaard; Comments, Christopher Clague; Floor discussion
PART 2: INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES5. Fostering fiscally responsive and accountable governance: lessons from decentralization; Comments, Wallace E. Oates; Comments, Laura Kullenberg; Floor discussion; 6. Transaction cost economics and public sector rent-seeking in developing countries: toward a theory of governance failure; Comments, Mancur Olson, Jr; Comments, Peter Eigen; Floor discussion; 7. Performance contracts: a tool for improving public services?; Comments, Leroy Jones; Comments, Tawfiq E. Chowdhury; Floor discussion
8. Reforming budgetary institutions in Latin America: the case for a national fiscal councilComments, Juan L. Cariaga; Comments, Jonathan D. Breul; Floor discussion; 9. Credible regulatory policy: options and evaluation; Comments, Daniel Artana; Comments, Yingyi Qian; Floor discussion; PART 3: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL; 10. Defining social capital: an integrating view; 11. An institutional framework for learning from failed states; Comments, Harris Mule; Comments, I. William Zartman; Floor discussion; 12. Learning from early childcare and education programs
Comments, Willem H. van der EykenComments, Nohra Rey de Marulanda; Floor discussion; 13. Institutional structure and social security systems: lessons from the Chilean experience; Comments, Elmar Kleiner; Comments, Gabriel Martinez; Floor discussion; PART 4: THE IMPLICATIONS OF NEOINSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS FOR EVALUATION; 14. Evaluation as an incentive instrument; 15. Implications for evaluation; Eleanor Chelimsky; Joseph Wood; Charles F. Sabel; Lyn Squire; Sharon Capeling-Alakija; Ray C. Rist; POSTSCRIPT: THE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF EVALUATION; LIST OF AUTHORS AND DISCUSSANTS
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Subject Institutional economics.
Organization.
Economic development projects -- Developing countries -- Evaluation
Economic development projects -- Evaluation
Institutional economics
Organization
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Picciotto, Roberto
Wolfensohn, James D
ISBN 9781351290425
1351290428