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March 21, 2023

Are you a public policymaker frustrated with the limited impact of your government’s policies? Do you see many policy ideas starting
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Broadening the Sense of ‘Us’: Exploring LEG Principles in Western Australia

January 18, 2023

Guest Blog by Pippa Hepburn, LEG ’22 When we started Leading Economic Growth (LEG) ten weeks ago, I was confused
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BSC 2022: The Year in Review

December 14, 2022

written by Salimah Samji Building State Capability (BSC) empowers public organizations to find local solutions to local problems and to
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Practicing the Art of Implementation

November 29, 2022

written by Salimah Samji Implementation is often the Achilles heel of good policy. Yet there is dearth of practical tools
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Aid and Fragility: PDIA at the UN

Published on October 25, 2013

Earlier today, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Frauke de Weijer were on a panel for the Fragility and Aid: What Works? event held by the UNU-WIDER at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN.

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Untying Development

Published on October 24, 2013

Yesterday, we hosted a one-day workshop entitled, Untying Development: Promoting Governance and Government with Impact. The day brought together different voices to discuss the challenge of creating a governance agenda that focuses on solving country-specific

BSC/PDIA 101

Hirschman told us that implementation involves a journey

Published on October 17, 2013

written by Matt Andrews I ran across the following quote from Hirschman today. A reminder that implementation is neither easy nor prone to scientific certainty. Rather, it requires journeys, of finding, fitting, and discovering. Do