Public services delivery, sustainability and a lesson from thermodynamics

A couple of months ago, I was on a field visit for a review of a large-scale, government-led poverty reduction protection initiative. Watching  and learning from the staff of local line agencies navigate about how they navigate a complex, multi-partner service delivery made me think of an unlikely concept from physics: the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the concept of entropy.

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