Eduardo Wiesner

Evaluation and Development

The Institutional Dimension

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study illustrates the social and political principal that institutions matter. It explores not only how to get institutions to work efficiently, but also how to assess the proper relationship between institutions and development challenges through evaluative techniques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780765804235
• ISBN-10: 0765804239
• Artikelnr.: 26183893

Autorenporträt

Eduardo Wiesner

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION PART I: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT 1.
Institutions in development: the country, research, and operational
challenges 2. Institutions, markets, and development outcomes 3.
Institutions, policies, and development outcomes 4. Reinvigorating state
institutions PART 2: INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES 5. Fostering
fiscally responsive and accountable governance: lessons from
decentralization 6. Transaction cost economics and public sector
rent-seeking in developing countries: toward a theory of governance failure
7. Performance contracts: a tool for improving public services? 8.
Reforming budgetary institutions in Latin America: the case for a national
fiscal council 19. Credible regulatory policy: options and evaluation PART
3: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL 10. Defining social
capital: an integrating view 11. An institutional framework for learning
from failed states 12. Learning from early childcare and education programs
13. Institutional structure and social security systems: lessons from the
Chilean experience PART 4: THE IMPLICATIONS OF NEOINSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS
FOR EVALUATION 14. Evaluation as an incentive instrument 15. Implications
for evaluation POSTSCRIPT: THE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF EVALUATION