Facilitating development: Evidence from a national-level experiment on improving bureaucratic performance in Myanmar

• Main Authors: DULAY, Dean C., MALESKY, Edmund
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Myanmar; Facilitation; Subnational performance assessment; MBEI; Decentralization; Asian Studies; Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3804; https://doi.org/10.1086/723989
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Despite strong theoretical foundations, randomized evaluations demonstrate that subnational performance assessments have a mixed record in improving governance. We suggest that a key factor influencing this disappointing result has been the omission of facilitation-working with bureaucrats on how to...