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Definition

Institutional Failure. Failures attributed to institutional design. These include

  • law and policy failures (e.g. perverse subsidies),
  • market failures (arising from externalities),
  • organisational failures (e.g. lack of transparency and political legitimacy in decision making) and
  • informal institutional failures (e.g. breakdown of social norms due to erosion of trust)

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