Introducing The DDD Manifesto
We are delighted to release The DDD Manifesto as an outcome of the 2014 Doing Development Differently (DDD) workshop. In late October, a group of about 40 development professionals, implementers […]
News & Updates
BSC website gets a makeover
As you may have noticed, our website was antiquated, to say the least. The task of giving it a makeover has been on the back burner for a while now. […]
Follow “Getting Things Done” at the Harvard Kennedy School
Matt Andrews teaches a course entitled “Getting Things Done: Management in the Development Context,” at the Harvard Kennedy School. He often gets asked about what he teaches in his course. […]
The role of PDIA in fragile states
The coherence and effectiveness of engagement with the world’s ‘fragile and conflict-affected states’—beyond ethical imperatives and geo-strategic considerations—turns on answers to two vexing questions. First, on what defensible basis is […]
BSC Paper wins ASA award
We are proud to announce that Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation co-authored by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock won the […]
World Cup Lessons: Is it the team or is it the star?
Amy Bass in an article in today’s CNN opinion section entitled, four key takeaways from World Cup 2014, asks the question of all sports – Is it the team, or […]
Introducing the BSC Video series
written by Salimah Samji Since the inception of the Building State Capability (BSC) program, the team has made over 50 presentations around the globe at places like the World Bank, […]
New Year, New Logo
Happy New Year! Building State Capability is the Center for International Development at Harvard University’s newest program. Since the inception, the team has published 13 UNU-WIDER working papers and made […]
The Studley Tool Chest
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I wanted to share the story of the image we chose for this blog – the Studley Tool Chest. Designed by piano maker Henry O. […]
Aid and Fragility: PDIA at the UN
Earlier today, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Frauke de Weijer were on a panel for the Fragility and Aid: What Works? event held by the UNU-WIDER at the Permanent Mission […]