Publication: The Black Box of Governmental Learning : The Learning Spiral - A Concept to Organize Learning in Governments
Date
2010
ISSN
Published
2010
Author(s)
Blindenbacher, Raoul
Nashat, Bidjan
Abstract
There are more poor people and poverty
reaches further into middle-income countries around the
world than ever before. Adequate governmental capacity
development is considered one of the critical missing
factors in current efforts to reduce poverty and, by doing
so, to meet the millennium development goals. If the
development of sustainable capacity is not given greater
attention in the near future, development efforts in the
poorest countries are expected to fail even if they are
supported with substantially increased funding. One
effective way to improve the quality of democratic
governments is by their learning from the past and from each
other's experiences. But to what extent are governments
capable of and/or willing to learn? And if they are, what
are they supposed to learn-and how? Is the way they learn
different from the way individuals or organizations learn?
Under what conditions do they learn best, and to what extent
can learning events enhance their capacities to improve the
performance of their public sectors? These and many related
questions are examined in the black box of governmental learning.
Citation
“Blindenbacher, Raoul; Nashat, Bidjan. 2010. The Black Box of Governmental
Learning : The Learning Spiral - A Concept to Organize
Learning in Governments. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2474 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”