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

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