Public sector reform in developing countries :  capacity challenges to improve services / 
edited by Yusuf Bangura and George A. Larbi. 
 - Basingstoke [England] ;  New York :  Palgrave Macmillan/UNRISD,  2006. 
 - xiv, 294 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Globalization and public sector reform / Yusuf Bangura and George A. Larbi -- Applying the new public management in developing countries / George A. Larbi -- Elusive public sector reform in east and southern Africa / Ole Therkildsen -- Public sector management reform in Latin America / Andrew Nickson -- Capacity to deliver? Management, institutions and public services in developing countries / Richard Batley and George A. Larbi -- Fiscal and capacity-building reform / Yusuf Bangura -- Employment and pay reform in developing and transition societies / Willy McCourt -- Fiscal decentralization in developing countries : theory and practice / Paul Smoke -- Decentralization policies and practices under adjustment and democratization in Africa / Dele Olowu -- Public-private partnerships and pro-poor development : the experience of the Córboda water concession in Argentina / Andrew Nickson -- Public sector reform : what are the lessons of experience? / George A. Larbi and Yusuf Bangura. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1403987718 (cloth) 9781403987716 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005044510 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA598909  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013342938  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public administration--Developing countries.<br/>Decentralization in government--Developing countries.<br/>Fiscal policy--Developing countries.<br/>Central-local government relations--Developing countries.<br/>Infrastructure (Economics)--Management.--Developing countries
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JF60  / .P865 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>352.3/67/091724