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...
The book is to provide an urgently needed corrective to the literature on state failure and governance in the developing world. While most literature ...
