Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries: Capacity Challenges to Improve Services

by Y. Bangura (editor), Yusuf Bangura (Editor)

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.

308 pages, Hardcover

First published August 22, 2006

Reviews

[Nurlan Mustafayev · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically, the book says that the public sector reforms in developing countries based on NPA shows no or very limited results given that such countries do not have the strong institutions to adopt and sustain such reforms in the long term.

To give a full picture to readers, the authors should also have included a chapter showing the outcomes of NPA reforms in developed countries. NPA reforms even in developed countries have also been generally unsuccessful as well.