The book looks at the issues confronting the public sector in developing countries in an era of globalization and provides lessons from implementing public sector reforms. It examines the potential and limits of managerial, fiscal and decentralization reforms and highlights cases where use of new management reforms has delivered positive results.
The book looks at the issues confronting the public sector in developing countries in an era of globalization and provides lessons from implementing public sector reforms. It examines the potential and limits of managerial, fiscal and decentralization reforms and highlights cases where use of new management reforms has delivered positive results.
RICHARD BATLEY Professor of Development Administration, International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK WILLY MCCOURT Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Institute for Development and Management, University of Manchester, UK ANDREW NICKSON Reader in Public Management and Latin American Development, International Development Department, University of Birmingham, UK BAMIDELE OLOWU Principal Governance Adviser, African Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia PAUL SMOKE Associate Professor and Director of International Programmes, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, USA OLE THERKILDSEN Senior Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
Inhaltsangabe
List of Tables, Boxes and Figures Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Y.Bangura & G.A.Larbi PART I: MANAGERIAL REFORM Applying the New Public Management in Developing Countries; G.A.Larbi Elusive Public Sector Reform in East and Southern Africa; O.Therkildsen Public Sector Management Reform in Latin America; A.Nickson Capacity to Deliver? Management, Institutions and Public Services in Developing Countries; R.Batley & G.A.Larbi PART II: FISCAL REFORM Fiscal and Capacity Building Reform; Y.Bangura Employment and Pay Reform in Developing and Transition Societies; W. McCourt PART III: DECENTRALIZATION REFORM Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: Theory and Practice; P.Smoke Decentralization Policies and Practices Under Adjustment and Democratization in Africa; B.Olowu Public-Private Partnerships and Pro-Poor Development: The Experience of the Cordoba Water Concession in Argentina; A.Nickson CONCLUSION Public Sector Reform: What are the Lessons of Experience? G.A.Larbi & Y.Bangura Index
List of Tables, Boxes and Figures Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Y.Bangura & G.A.Larbi PART I: MANAGERIAL REFORM Applying the New Public Management in Developing Countries; G.A.Larbi Elusive Public Sector Reform in East and Southern Africa; O.Therkildsen Public Sector Management Reform in Latin America; A.Nickson Capacity to Deliver? Management, Institutions and Public Services in Developing Countries; R.Batley & G.A.Larbi PART II: FISCAL REFORM Fiscal and Capacity Building Reform; Y.Bangura Employment and Pay Reform in Developing and Transition Societies; W. McCourt PART III: DECENTRALIZATION REFORM Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: Theory and Practice; P.Smoke Decentralization Policies and Practices Under Adjustment and Democratization in Africa; B.Olowu Public-Private Partnerships and Pro-Poor Development: The Experience of the Cordoba Water Concession in Argentina; A.Nickson CONCLUSION Public Sector Reform: What are the Lessons of Experience? G.A.Larbi & Y.Bangura Index
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