Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies

If You Want To Understand How Politics, Institutions, And Policy Interact With Each Other To Produce Economic Success Or Failure - Not Over The Very Long Run When We Are All Dead, But In The Shorter Run That Affects Us All - There Are Few Books That Pack As Much Insight As This One. Brian Levy Is A Practitioner Who Can Theorize As Well As Any Scholar. But The Real Value Added Of This Book Is The Practical And Pragmatic Approach It Brings To Institutional Reform. Dani Rodrik, Albert Hirschman Professor Of Social Science, Institute For Advanced Study, Princeton. The Search For A Useful Development Paradigm -- Constructing A Typology -- The Edge Of Chaos -- The Dominant Trajectory In Action -- Personalized Competition In Action -- Virtuous Circles In Action -- Patterns Of Governance And Growth -- Function Versus Form In Public Sector Reform -- Transparency And Participation : Getting The Fit Right -- Multi-stakeholder Governance And The Private Sector -- Governance And Development ? Deconstructing The Discourse -- Navigating The Development Knife-edge. Brian Levy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.