Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development

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The Politics of Public Services: A Service Characteristics Approach (2015, background): “It is therefore difficult to specify in detail sufficient to be monitored, the way in which teachers are expected to operate (Pritchett & Woolcock, 2004).”
Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation (2005, background): “When scientists develop technical prescriptions through careful, controlled experimentation, then apply those recommendations widely, with little regard to local conditions, successful outcomes prove spotty at best (Ghimire & Pimbert, 1997; Ostrom, 1990; Pritchett & Woolcock, 2003).”
The Good Governance Agenda: Beyond Indicators without Theory (2008, background): “…of Pritchett and Woolcock’s worry that thinking based on such examples poses a problem in development: “Simply mimicking . . . the organizational forms of a particular ‘Denmark’—has in fact been a root cause of deep problems encountered by developing countries” (Pritchett & Woolcock, 2004, p. 193).”