Hunting for surprising success stories : a mixed-methods approach to identifying positive outliers in international development /

To better understand how developmental progress occurs, international development scholars and policy makers reach for impressive examples of positive change. These cases have been referred to as not only "positive outliers" but also "positive deviants" and "pockets of effec...

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Main Author: Peiffer, Caryn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019.
Series:SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
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