Is best practice in development still viable? The case of financial management in fragile Afghanistan
本文通过阿富汗公共财政管理案例，评估最佳实践在脆弱国家发展项目中的适用性，为发展实践者提供反思。
The concept of best practice has few friends in international development; however, the wholesale rejection of best practice is incorrect. The article first reviews the critique of best practice by describing its four main features and analyses it through a case study of public financial management (PFM) in Afghanistan country using three donor-funded projects that employ a best practice approach. The PFM projects are evaluated based on the four components of the critique. The article concludes with a modest reassessment of the continued salience of best practice in international development.