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Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA).
Andrews, Matthew, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock. "Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)." World Development 51 (2013): 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.05.011.
Why this matters here
Andrews, Pritchett, and Woolcock argue that public organizations escape capability traps through problem-driven iteration more reliably than through large redesigns detached from feedback. Coupling uses that finding to ask when simplification preserves ownership and consequence return—and when it only removes structure.
