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About Woodhill, Jim
Jim Woodhill is director of the Capacity Development and Institutional Change Programme at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands. Jim has 20 years experience in sustainable development across the fields of agriculture, food systems, natural resources and economic development. He specializes in applying systems thinking and participatory learning approaches to complex development issues. He has extensive experience as a process facilitator and in programme evaluation and holds a PhD in Political Economics from the Australian National University.
Articles by Woodhill, Jim
Development is about transforming institutions – the cultural values, legal frameworks, informal arrangements, market mechanisms and political processes that perpetuate inequality, overlook market externalities and constrain economic progress. If aid is failing, as some argue, it has much to do with agencies misunderstanding institutions and how they change. Read more>>
