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The book is to provide an urgently needed corrective to the literature on state failure and governance in the developing world. While most literature is written from a focuses predominantly on state failure, corruption and other elements of 'bad governance', this book instead studies the phenomenon of 'Pockets of Effectiveness'. Pockets of Effectiveness are public organisations and state-owned enterprises which provide public goods and services relatively effectively in a hostile environment dominated by bad governance. The authors provide a first systematic and comparative study of these...

It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or pockets of effectiveness in developing countries.

Why do these pockets exist? How do they emerge and survive in hostile environments? And do they...