Toward a new theory and practice of building state capacity
Guest blog by Archon Fung I just want to begin by expressing my profound pride about the new book by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock: Building State Capacity: […]
PDIA 101
Thomas C. Schelling’s Contributions to Policy Analysis
Guest blog by Robert Klitgaard Thomas C. Schelling has been rightly lionized for his contributions in economics, international security, and the transdisciplinary field of game theory. He was also a pioneer in […]
State Capability Matters
written by Lant Pritchett The Social Progress Index is a new attempt to gauge human well-being across countries that does not rely on standard measures like GDP per capita but […]
PDIA Notes 2: Learning to Learn
written by Peter Harrington After over two years of working with the government of Albania, and as we embark on a new project to work with the government of Sri […]
PDIA: It doesn’t matter what you call it, it matters that you do it
written by Matt Andrews It is nearly two years since we at the Building State Capability (BSC) program combined with various other groups across the developing world to create an […]
PDIA Notes 1: How we have PDIA’d PDIA in the last five years
written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability (BSC) program have been working on PDIA experiments for five years now. These experiments have been designed to help us learn […]
The “PDIA: Notes from the Real World” blog series
written by Salimah Samji We are delighted to announce our new PDIA: Notes from the Real World blog series. In this series we will share our lessons from our PDIA experiments […]
SearchFrames for Adaptive Work (More Logical than Logframes)
written by Matt Andrews Although the benefits of experimental iteration in a PDIA process seem very apparent to most people we work with, we often hear that many development organizations […]
The New Global Goals Spell the End of Kinky Development
written by Lant Pritchett The UN’s post-2015 “Sustainable Development Goals” (or “Global Goals”) debuted to decidedly mixed reviews. Phyllis Pomerantz points out that with 169 targets “if everything is a […]
A new era for development – the future or already reality?
Guest blog by Arnaldo Pellini Michael Woolcock, the Lead Social Development Specialist at the World Bank, gave the keynote speech at the International Conference on Best Development Practices and Policies […]