Administrative Reform in Developing Nations - Hardcover

Farazmand, Ali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275972127 ISBN 13: 9780275972127

Verlag: Praeger, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors. This volume, with chapters written by authorities from around the world, provides information on administrative reform in varied nations. Following an introduction, which sets a theoretical framework, the book contains sections devoted to Asia, the Near/Middle East, Africa, and a comparison of East/South Europe and Asia.

Administrative reform has become a widespread challenge to national and sub-national governments around the globe. Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors. This volume, with chapters written by authorities from around the world, provides information on administrative reform in varied nations.

Developing nations face acute problems on a daily basis, making administrative reform an essential function of public administration. With chapters devoted to experiences in such nations as Korea, India, Iran, Turkey, the Arab States, Nigeria, and South Africa, this volume sheds valuable light on administrative reform in developing countries and provides lessons for future policy actions.

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ALI FARAZMAND is Professor of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of 18 books, including, most recently, Privatization or Public Enterprise Reform? (Greenwood, 2000) and Editor-in-Chief of Public Organization Review: A Global Journal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0275972127
• ISBN 13: 9780275972127
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; contact@bloomsbury.com; ; 50 Bedford Square; London; England; WC1B 3DP; Deutschland