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Keywords
- city
- Developing Countries
- development
- New Public Management
- public management
- Public Sector Management
- Public Sector Reform
- Public Services
- landscape/regional and urban planning
About this book
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.
About the authors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries
Book Subtitle: Capacity Challenges to Improve Services
Editors: Y. Bangura
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8771-6Published: 17 January 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 294