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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Lant Pritchett

Development scholars of capability traps, problem-driven iteration, and institutional reform in weak states.

Why this matters

Their work warns that imported solutions sediment failure—correction requires local problem framing.

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Works

article

Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA).

Andrews, Matthew, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock. "Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)." *World Development* 51 (2013): 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.05.011.

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