Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
7-2016
Abstract
Development actors are regularly aware of the shortcomings of governance interventions before, during, and after development assistance is introduced, yet those programmes continue and are even revisited. Why? This paper uses the Pakistani experience with power sector reforms to illustrate how the donor-led reform agenda had readily apparent shortcomings. A new wave of development thinking responds to such failures by drawing on complexity theory and moving toward more local, iterative and experimental approaches. However, by highlighting how the awareness of problems with reforms isn't sufficient to avoid them, this paper points to a higher order of obstacles which remain unaddressed.
Keywords
Utilities, electricity supply, Pakistan, government policy
Discipline
Asian Studies | Public Policy | Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Journal of Development Studies
Volume
52
Issue
7
First Page
950
Last Page
964
ISSN
0022-0388
Identifier
10.1080/00220388.2016.1146704
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
Citation
NAQVI, Ijlal.(2016). Pathologies of development practice: Higher order obstacles to governance reform in the Pakistani electrical power sector. Journal of Development Studies, 52(7), 950-964.
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Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2016.1146704