Institutional development : incentives to performance /
Economic progress requires institutions with the ability to make effective use of the human and financial resources available. In developing countries, however, government agencies, public enterprises, and other public and private organizations often lack that ability. The author illustrates the imp...
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Baltimore, Md. :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1990
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Institutional weakness: a roadblock to development
- Pt. 1. Patterns of institutional development: 2. Methodology
- 3. The World Bank's experience
- 4. The standard explanations
- Pt. 2. Alternative explanations: 5. Specificity
- 6. Technology and the degree of specificity
- 7. Competition and competition surrogates
- Pt. 3. Operational conclusions: 8. National strategies to increase institutional capacity
- 9. The performance of individual institutions
- 10. A successful managerial approach: the training and visit system of agricultural extension
- 11. Conclusions for program and project design
- Appendix
- Index.