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When Economic Development Meets Rule of Law on Developing Country Terrain:  Findings on regulatory organizations and their street-level enforcers in Brazil

Judith Tendler, a development economist, is Professor of Political Economy in the International Development Group of the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Starting in 1992 and continuing through this 2008, she ran five comparative research projects in Brazil that have combined her field research with teaching, and produced various publications and theses.  During this period, MIT awarded her two prizes – the Irwin Sizer prize for “the most significant improvement in education at MIT” and the Class of 1960 Award and Chair for “distinguished contributions to the instructional program and superbly innovative and effective work in educating graduate students under field conditions.”

Tendler’s recent publications include Good Government in the Tropics, “Why are social funds so popular?”, “Small firms, the informal sector, and the Devil’s Deal,” “Why social policy is condemned to a residual category of safety nets and what to do about it,” and “Undoing the poverty agenda and putting it back together: economic development, social policy, or what?”  Earlier books include Inside Foreign Aid, and Electric Power in Brazil: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector.  Over the years, Tendler conducted and published the results of field-evaluation research carried out in Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), and Egypt.

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