Managing The Public Service In Developing Countries
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| Author | : Charles Conteh |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2014-04-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1135100667 |
The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among individuals, agencies, and interest groups that can constrain behaviour, as well as provide incentives for collaborative action. Paradoxes inevitably emerge in policy network practice and design. The ability to manage government departments and operations has become less important than the ability to navigate the complex world of interconnected policy implementation processes. Public sector reform policies and programmes, as a consequence, are a study in the complexities of the institutional and environmental context in which these reforms are pursued. Building on theory and practice, this book argues that advancing the theoretical frontlines of development management research and practice can benefit from developing models based on innovation, collaboration and governance. The themes addressed in Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries will enable public managers in developing countries cope in uncertain and turbulent environments as they seek optimal fits between their institutional goals and environmental contingencies.
| Author | : Selcuk Ozgediz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Civil service |
| ISBN | : 9780821302439 |
| Author | : Victor Ayeni |
| Publisher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780850927115 |
A country-by-country synopsis of the public sector reform programmes in 40 Commonwealth developing countries, with a profile of each country and an outline of the reform initiatives, implementation processes, achievements and problems encountered.
| Author | : Yusuf Bangura |
| Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2006-01-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
The book critically examines some of the most topical and challenging issues confronting the public sector in developing countries in an era of globalization. The contributors examine the potential and limits of managerial, fiscal and decentralization reforms and highlight cases where selective use of some of the new management reforms has delivered positive results. Looking into the future, the book provides lessons from the experience of implementing public sector reforms in developing countries.
| Author | : Sam Agere |
| Publisher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780850926293 |
This book aims to show that a strong and achieving public service is a necessary condition for a competitively successful nation. The concept of good governance is linked with institutionalised values such as democracy, observance of human rights and greater effectiveness of the public sector.
| Author | : Salvatore Schiavo-Campo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 2014-12-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317461789 |
Written by two authors with a wide range of experience in international affairs, this introductory text addresses both the commonalities and diversity of administrative practice around the world, including a succinct but thorough overview of PA in the United States. It combines solid conceptual foundations with strong coverage of nuts-and-bolts "how to" topics, such as personnel management, procurement, and budgeting, and covers both developed countries and developing and transitional economies.The book's chapters are organized into four major sections: government functions and organization; management of government activity; interaction between government and citizens; and prospects of administrative reform. Plentiful illustrations and examples throughout the book, and "What to Expect" sections and discussion questions in each chapter, make this an ideal text for any PA course that takes a global perspective.
| Author | : Michael Roll |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317934547 |
It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or ‘pockets of effectiveness’ in developing countries. Why do these pockets exist? How do they emerge and survive in hostile environments? And do they have the potential to trigger more comprehensive reforms and state-building? This book provides surprising answers to these questions, based on detailed case studies of exceptional public organizations and state-owned enterprises in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. The case studies are guided by a common analytical framework that is process-oriented and sensitive to the role of politics. The concluding comparative analysis develops a novel explanation for why some public organizations in the developing world beat the odds and turn into pockets of public sector performance and service delivery while most do not. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, development, organizations, public administration, public policy and management.
| Author | : World Bank |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780821361405 |
This publication sets out a framework for analysing the performance of governments in developing countries, looking at the government as a whole and at local and municipal levels, and focusing on individual sectors that form the core of essential government services, such as health, education, welfare, waste disposal, and infrastructure. It draws lessons from performance measurement systems in a range of industrial countries to identify good practice around the world in improving public sector governance, combating corruption and making services work for poor people.
| Author | : Willy McCourt |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
This work sets out to examine the conceptual and practical problems which attend changes in the ways that reform in public management in developing countries have led to a renegotiation of traditional relationships between state, economy and society.
| Author | : Anjula Gurtoo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788132221616 |
The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy, and public administration. The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like South Africa, Philippines, India and Malaysia. At the forefront of this movement has been the public sector reforms significantly driven by two broad factors: public sector inefficiencies, and liberal economic ideology. This move towards efficient public service delivery in developing nations (versus developed nations) has required a significant shift in institutional thinking and institutional capacity for the governments. It is therefore no surprise that while economic liberalization has been relatively easy to implement, governance reforms towards public service delivery has been significantly more challenging. In this background, the chapters of the book, with sector themes, examine the three basic foundations of public policy--courses of action, regulatory measures and issues, and funding structures and priorities--in public service delivery. The book is a multi country, multi sector, perspective since it includes studies from Russian Federation, India, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Fiji, South Africa, Columbia, Philippines, Macedonia, and India. This perspective lends itself to the investigation for a comprehensive overall development model.
