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Administrative Reforms and Policy Capacity in Asia

Author : Kidjie Saguin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Administrative Reforms and Policy Capacity in Asia written by Kidjie Saguin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 30 years witnessed massive shifts in administrative systems all over the world but there is little consensus in literature on how to successfully carry out reforms. In Asia, the diversity of economic advancement and varying roles of the bureaucracy in society offer a unique opportunity to examine different approaches to administrative reforms. Based on this diverse experience, capacity emerged as a universal area of concern in administrative reforms particularly for developing Asia. As Farazmand (2002) noted, reforms in developing countries “may involve a number of structural and process changes and improvements...by building the technical, professional, and administrative management capacity”. What these capacities are remain poorly studied and little research has been done to guide policy makers on how to go about administrative reform. This study seeks to fill this gap by conducting a qualitative analysis of 20 Project Validation Reports (PVRs) of projects tagged under a Public Sector Management. PVRs are independently verified versions of a project's achievements of outputs/outcomes by operations staff. These were coded and analysed to explore the nature of how capacity is embedded into the discourse of administrative reforms in development projects financed by international financing institutions (IFIs) like the Asian Development Bank. It does this by answering the following specific research questions: How is the concept of capacity important in administrative reforms? What are the critical capacities typically identified as contributory to the failure or success of administrative reforms? By refracting ADB's experiences in managing such projects through the lens of capacity, a set of skills and resources critical for administrative reforms was derived, categorized as either analytical capacity, operational capacity or political capacity. Using cluster analysis, five clusters were identified to represent the interrelationships between the capacities. The study contributes to the literature on evaluation of development aid specifically for administrative reforms. It also hopes to provide implications for how development projects meant to improve administrative systems should be carried out by IFIs and governments.

Re-thinking Administrative Reforms in Southeast Asia

Author : Khai Leong Ho
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Re-thinking Administrative Reforms in Southeast Asia written by Khai Leong Ho and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on trends and practices in administrative reform (broadly defined as efforts and policies to improve the capacity of governmental institutions and service delivery), this edited volume presents a comprehensive survey of public sector management in various Southeast Asian states, including Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Myanmar. The writers identify common problems associated with administrative structures and public employment arrangements, and examine critical issues challenging each Southeast Asian government's efforts and commitments. Their analyses and arguments also provide an alternative way of thinking about the directions of administrative reforms in these countries in the future.

Public Administration in East Asia

Author : Evan M. Berman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420051911
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Public Administration in East Asia written by Evan M. Berman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading experts, Public Administration in East Asia: Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan examines the inner workings of governments in East Asia, in particular its public administration and related public policy processes. It focuses on the apparatus of government — the agencies, their values, context, and policies within which they operate. Organized in parallel sections, the book covers the history, public policy processes, organization, HRM, ethics, corruption, intergovernmental relations, performance management, and e-government. It discusses each of these topics separately for Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, providing an unusual and important comparative perspective. The book includes essential knowledge and facts, discussions of emerging issues, and useful resources for further reading. It addresses questions such as: What is the history of public administration in East Asia? How are decisions made? What is the role of Confucianism in shaping public administration? How does the developmental path affect public administration? Why is performance management emphasized? What is the state of citizen participation? How are ethical underpinnings of the civil service different from the West? Why are intergovernmental relations an essential issue in East Asia? What are the politics behind world-class achievements in IT? What is the nature of civil service reform? What is the nature of efforts to combat government corruption? You can find many books on trade policy and politics that sometimes give good insight into the operation of government agencies. You can also find a few edited books that contain single chapters on countries in the Asia-Pacific region. What is missing, however, is a single resource that provides an overview with depth on matters solely about public administration. This state-of-the-art resource brings together the fragments of existing knowledge on East Asian economies, filling the need for a comprehensive compendium that showcases the public administration practices in the region and East Asia’s innovative approaches to governance and its many challenges.

Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Asia

Author : Evan Berman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787433102
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Asia written by Evan Berman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present day knowledge about public sector reforms in Asia is quite scattered and seldom focuses on the challenges of leadership. This book seeks to address this issue by presenting country cases that reflect the great diversity of the region.

Challenges to State Policy Capacity

Author : M. Painter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230524192
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Challenges to State Policy Capacity written by M. Painter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and New Public Management pose major challenges to the policy capacity of the state. Challenges to State Policy Capacity offers the most timely and comprehensive coverage of contemporary state policy capacity. Drawing on the work by international leading scholars in political science and public administration, the book is indispensable to anyone interested in policy capacity, administrative reform and the state.

Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia

Author : Richard Common
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia written by Richard Common and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By presenting original case studies of public management reforms in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, this book is an important addition to our understanding of the development of New Public Management (NPM) outside Western liberal democracies. Particularly useful for political scientists, business and management scholars, academics of international relations and economics.

The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia

Author : Yasushi Hirosato
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402093772
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia by : Yasushi Hirosato

Download or read book The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia written by Yasushi Hirosato and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition. They must simultaneously meet the goals of Education for All (EFA) at the basic education level and of developing a more sophisticated workforce required by the knowledge-based economy at the post-basic, especially tertiary, education level. To meet this challenge, developing countries need to reform/renovate their education systems and service deliveries as an integral part of national development. However, most of them have not yet fully developed the individual, institutional, and system capacities in undertaking necessary education reforms, especially under decentralization and privatization requiring new roles at various (central and local, or public and private) levels of administration and stakeholders. Provided that an ultimate vision of educational development and cooperation in the twenty-first century would be to develop indigenous capacity in engineering education reforms, this book analyzes the overall education reform context and capacity, including the status of sector program support using the sector-wide approach (SWAp)/program-based approach (PBA) in developing countries. We also address how different stakeholders have been interacting in order to promote equitable access to quality education, particularly from the perspectives of capacity development under the system of decentralization.

Building Trust in Government

Author : G. Shabbir Cheema
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Building Trust in Government written by G. Shabbir Cheema and published by UN. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of governments and the global community to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, ensure security, and promote adherence to basic standards of human rights depends on people's trust in their government. However, public trust in government and political institutions has been declining in both developing and developed countries in the new millennium. One of the challenges in promoting trust in government is to engage citizens, especially the marginalized groups and the poor, into the policy process to ensure that governance is truly representative, participatory, and benefits all.

Handbook of Public Policy and Public Administration in China

Author : Xiaowei Zang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789909953
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Public Policy and Public Administration in China written by Xiaowei Zang and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a critical analysis of the major theoretical and empirical issues in public policy and public administration in China. Investigating methodological, theoretical, and conceptual themes, it provides an insightful reflection on how China is governed.

Public Management Reform

Author : Christopher Pollitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9781280815027
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Public Management Reform written by Christopher Pollitt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new contribution to a rapidly expanding field, the authors offer an integrated analysis of the wave of management reforms which have swept through so many countries in the last twenty years. The reform trajectories of ten countries are compared, and key differences of approach discussed. Unlike some previous works, this volume affords balanced coverage to the 'New Public Management' (NPM) and the 'non-NPM' or 'reluctant NPM' countries, since it covers Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Unusually, it also includes a preliminary analysis of attempts to improve management within the European Commission.

China

Author : Gungwu Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814425834
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book China written by Gungwu Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has achieved significant socio-economic progress and has become a key player on the international stage after several decades of open-door and reform policy. Looking beyond China's transformation, this book focusses on the theme of governance which is widely regarded as the next most critical element to ensure that China's growth remains sustainable.Today, China is confronted with a host of pressing challenges that call for urgent attention. These include the need to rebalance and restructure the economy, the widening income gaps, the poor integration of migrant populations in the urban areas, insufficient public housing and healthcare coverage, the seeming lack of political reforms and the degree of environmental degradation. In the foreign policy arena, China is likewise under pressure to do more to address global concerns while not appearing to be overly aggressive. The next steps that China takes would have a great deal to do with governance, in terms of how it tackles or fails to address the myriad of challenges, both domestic and foreign.China: Development and Governance, with 57 short chapters in total, is based on up-to-date scholarly research written in a readable and concise style. Besides China's domestic developments, it also covers China's external relations with the United States, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Non-specialists, in particular, should find this volume accessible and useful in keeping up with fast-changing developments in East Asia.

Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319152181
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia written by Ishtiaq Jamil and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It maps governance challenges and analyzes current trends from the perspectives of democracy, public policy, and public institutions. Regional public administration and governance systems have undergone some phenomenal changes over the last three decades and have played a key role in the economic progress of the area, especially in the Southeast and East Asian nations. Rich with country-specific evidence and analyses, the chapters in the book apply empirical and other research methods to examine shifting paradigms and best practices. This book develops an understanding of changes in the forms, process and practices of governance, both within the context of each nation and in a comparative perspective. The book will appeal to scholars, academics, students, and practitioners of public administration, political science, and policy issues.

Decentralization Policies in Asian Development

Author : Shinichi Ichimura
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812818642
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Decentralization Policies in Asian Development written by Shinichi Ichimura and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the important topic of fiscal decentralization in Asian countries, and focuses on how government finance and administration are being reformed to bring budgetary decisions closer to voters. The focus on Asia is especially important because all countries in this region have been undergoing serious fiscal reforms in the past decade. They include one of the biggest decentralization reforms in Indonesia, significant reforms in democratic Philippines and Vietnam which are in transition, and Japan, whose fiscal reconstruction program is covered extensively. India and China, which are also covered, are very special cases because of their size and because their policies must fit decentralization into a significant economic growth scenario.

China's Civil Service Reform

Author : Xiaoqi Wang (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415577489
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book China's Civil Service Reform written by Xiaoqi Wang (Ph. D.) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of China's overall reform process, China's civil service has also been reformed, beginning in the late 1970s, undergoing a major change in 1993 with the implementation of a new Civil Service System, with the reforms continuing to unfold thereafter. This book, based on extensive original research, outlines the civil service reforms and assesses their effectiveness.

Public Administration in Southeast Asia

Author : Evan M. Berman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420064770
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Public Administration in Southeast Asia written by Evan M. Berman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While public administration practice and education in general has become considerably professionalized in the last decade, existing knowledge on public administration in Southeast Asia is fragmented at best, and often devoid of a useful reference. While journal articles and government reports provide decentralized information, Public Administration in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Macao takes a comprehensive and comparative look at the major components of administration systems. The selection of countries and regions included reflects the diversity of Southeast Asia. Organized by Country The handbook fills a critical need by bringing together leading scholars who provide an insider perspective and viewpoint on essential and advanced issues. Divided into five sections, each dedicated to a particular country, the text outlines topics relevant to modern public administration, including: History and Political Context of Public Administration Decentralization and Local Governance Public Ethics and Corruption Performance Management Reforms Civil Service System Focusing on recent developments in public administration in these countries which are among the fastest growing economies in the world, the book explores their practices and innovative approaches in public administration. For many years people have been fascinated by the cultures, peoples, and governments of Southeast Asia, and now they have a book that discusses the apparatus of government in Southeast Asia – their agencies, contexts, processes, and values.

Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia

Author : Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811585741
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia written by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which are still significant players in many Asian economies. They provide essential public services, build and operate key infrastructure, and are often reservoirs of public employment. Their characteristics and inherent competitive advantages as publicly owned enterprises allow them to play these critical roles. Their weaknesses in governance and inefficiencies in incentive structures, however, also often lead to poor performance. SOEs must be efficient, transparent, and accountable to level the playing field for private companies, secure the growth of a vibrant private sector, and achieve sustained and inclusive economic growth. This book analyzes the reform of SOEs in Asia, the results of which are mixed. The volume concludes that some key conditions generally need to be met for SOE reforms to be successful: national bureaucracies must have the capacity to implement the reforms, and adverse impacts on international trade and investment must be avoided.

Health Policy in Asia

Author : M. Ramesh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108676952
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Health Policy in Asia written by M. Ramesh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book assesses the policy actions of select Asian governments (China, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand) to address critical health system functions from a policy design perspective. The findings show that all governments in the region have made tremendous strides in focussing their attention on the core issues and, especially, the interactions among them. However, there is still insufficient appreciation of the usefulness of public hospitals and their efficient management. Similarly, some governments have not made sufficient efforts to establish an effective regulatory framework which is especially vital in systems with a large share of private providers and payers. A well-run public hospital system and an effective framework for regulating private providers are essential tools to support the governance, financing, and payment reforms underway in the six health systems studied in this book.