From both a practical and a theoretical perspective, improved public sector performance has
preoccupied policymakers, managers, and analysts around the world. There is broad …

Claims that a particular policy has been a 'success' are commonplace in political life.
However, a few of these claims are justified in any systematic way. This article seeks to …

2020). As a part of this development, higher education is becoming increasingly data driven.
Simultaneously, attempts to predict and prepare for future scenarios in education are driven …

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 …

Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about
these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and …

Executive summary This literature review has been completed as part of an OECD multi-
donor evaluation of PSGRs in developing countries between 2001 and 2011. The review …

It is well established that even in countries that have poor governance and weak public
sectors, exceptional well‐functioning government and government‐supported agencies do …

Comparison of responses to the post-1999 coffee crisis of three smallholder cooperatives
participating in Fair Trade and conventional commodity networks suggests that agrarian …

About the author David Henley is Professor of Contemporary Indonesia Studies at Leiden
University. He obtained his doctorate from the Australian National University and has …

Discussions of chronic poverty emphasize the extent to which poverty endures because of
the social relationships and structures within which particular social groups are embedded …