This book draws on case studies of social, economic and political governance policies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the circumstances in which governments and societies produce policies that overcome initial opposition to meet their aims.

Autorentext
ANREA CORNWALL Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK MERILEE S.GRINDLE Edward S. Mason Professor, International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA BERT HOFMAN heads the Economics Unit, World Bank, China DAVID HULME Professor of Development Studies, and Associate Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, UK DAVID JACKSON Consultant, Wise Owls Organisation THEE KIAN WIE Senior Researcher, Indonesia Institute of Sciences MARCUS MELO Professor of Politics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil DIANA MILTIN Senior Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development, and Lecturer, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK KAREN MOORE Research Associate, Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK ELLA RODERICK-JONES Consultant, World Bank ALEX SHANKLAND engaged in fieldwork for a D.Phil, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Inhalt
Preface Introduction: A Framework For Understanding Development Success; W.McCourt & A.Bebbington Political Competition Can Be Positive: Embedding Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil; M. Melo Managing The Indonesian Economy: Good Policies, Weak Institutions; B.Hofman When Good Policies Go Bad, Then What? Dislodging Exhausted Industrial And Education Policies In Latin America; M.Grindle Why Has Microfinance Been A Policy Success In Bangladesh?; D.Hulme & K.Moore Behind 'Win-Win' - Politics, Interests And Ideologies In Successful Subsidized Housing Developments; D.Mitlin Realizing Health Rights In Brazil: The Micropolitics Of Sustaining Health System Reform; A.Shankland & A.Cornwall The 'Nampula Model': A Mozambique Case Of Successful Participatory Planning And Financing; D.Jackson Explaining (And Obtaining) Development Success; A.Bebbington & W.McCourt Bibliography Index