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Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations

Introduction -- Evolution of Economic Development Theories and Doctrines -- Economic Policy Practice -- Evolution of Governance and Development Administration Theory -- Evolution of Governance and Development Administration Practice -- Evolving Roles of Non-Governmental Organizations -- The Evolution of Foreign Assistance Theories and Doctrines -- International Development in the American Grain : From Point Four to the Present -- Evolving Roles of the Military -- Complementarity of Security and Development Doctrines : Historical Cases and Aftermaths -- Conclusion : Linkages and Challenges

This book assesses the evolution of theories, doctrines, and practices in governance, economics, foreign assistance, civil society, and human security in developing countries since WWII, identifying progress and weaknesses. It points to how development approaches across these inter-connected areas can greatly enhance inclusive development.--