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Lant Pritchett delivers WIDER Annual Lecture 16 "Folk and the Formula - Pathways to Capable States"

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Lant Pritchett and Matt Andrews on Building State Capability at GEM12

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Matt Andrews discusses his Working Paper - Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Lant Pritchett on International Development

Foreign Policy interviews Lant Pritchett about Asian success stories, what India's doing wrong, and Islamic politics.

Lant Pritchett discusses societies structured by rules and deals, how to use development funds efficiently, the relationship of economic growth and education, capability traps, isomorphic mimicry in development co-operation and aid effectiveness.

Lant Pritchett outlines the asymmetry between policy mapping and formulation, and policy outcomes.

Matt Andrews discusses public sector reform and participatory governance in developing and transitional governments.

Michael Woolcock discusses the concept and routes to aid effectiveness, capability traps, governance and gives advice for future research on development issues for students of these subjects.

Matt Andrews on Public Financial Management

An interview with Michael Woolcock on how aid projects often focus on institutional form rather than function.

Podcast: Pulling for the Underdog
An interview with Michael Woolcock on how aid projects often focus on institutional form rather than function.