The Citizen is Willing, But Society Won't Deliver: IISD's Javed Ahmad comments
IISD's Javed Ahmad comments on The Citizen is Willing, But Society Won't Deliver: The Problem of Institutional Roadblocks—a book by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent. The book looks at how government systems are often blighted by institutional roadblocks.
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