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Book Synopsis The Civil Service in New African States by : A.L. Adu
Download or read book The Civil Service in New African States written by A.L. Adu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1965, the Civil Service in New African States describes the problems and principles relating to the growth and development of the civil services in the newly independent states of Africa. With case studies from Ghana, and a few other West and East African countries, it discusses themes like civil service within machinery of government; administration of the civil service; Africanization policy and programme; the public service commission; structure and functions of ministries and departments; policy-making process; and financial control. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of African studies, African politics, and public administration.
Book Synopsis A Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Mamadou Dia
Download or read book A Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Mamadou Dia and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inefficient civil service administrations are jeopardizing future development in many African countries. The reforms suggested in this paper would make these administrations more accountable, enforce the rule of law, and reward bureaucrats solely on their
Book Synopsis A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Mr.Ian Lienert
Download or read book A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Mr.Ian Lienert and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses a decade of experience in civil service reform in a sample of 32 sub-Saharan African countries. Many countries have made an important start towards reducing excessive staffing levels and the nominal wage bill, but less progress has been made in decompressing salary differentials in favor of higher-grade staff. In the CFA franc zone countries, real wages fell sharply after the 1994 devaluation, but the wage bill relative to tax revenue is still high in many countries. There is a need to consolidate quantitative first-generation reforms that contribute to macroeconomic stabilization. Equally important is the need to make progress on qualitative second-generation reforms, especially remuneration and promotion policies that reward performance and measures to improve civil service management. Such policies will require strong political commitment by governments.
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Book Synopsis New Public Management in Africa by : Benon C. Basheka
Download or read book New Public Management in Africa written by Benon C. Basheka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The administrative sciences have been dominated by a turn to managerial perspectives in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and in the spirit of this turn, 'New Public Management' (or NPM) promises to produce efficient, responsible and client-oriented public services. The reforms carried out in the pursuit of New Public Management are often accompanied by great optimism and rapid, enthusiastic steps toward implementation. Even in highly developed industrial countries, however, these fundamental reforms often overlook the political and cultural contexts of the implementing country. New Public Management in Africa: Emerging Issues and Lessons provides much-needed theoretical foundations for NPM reforms in the African context and reflects on the success of existing reforms in the development of several African states. The individual contributions in this timely volume provide important analyses of academic discourse, practical policy, achievements, and desiderata. The book as a whole, however, provides a valuable impetus for public administration research in and on African states, sharing findings on the results of reforms to date and adjustments required for these reforms to succeed. For public administration researchers outside of Africa, this book offers a review of New Public Management case studies that are unavailable or difficult to find elsewhere, contributing much to the exchange between African and Western administration science research, and demonstrating that African administrative research is well-prepared to help resolve global challenges.
Book Synopsis The Civil Service in New Africa States by : Amishadai L. Adu
Download or read book The Civil Service in New Africa States written by Amishadai L. Adu and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis States at Work by : Thomas Bierschenk
Download or read book States at Work written by Thomas Bierschenk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.
Book Synopsis Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects by : Joseph R. A. Ayee
Download or read book Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects written by Joseph R. A. Ayee and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospectsis an in-depth and wide-ranging review of the available literature on African public sector reforms. It illustrates several differing country experiences to buttress the main observations and conclusions. It adopts a structural/institutional approach which underpins most of the reform efforts on the continent. To contextualize reform of the public sector and understand its processes, dynamics and intricacies, the book examines the state and state capacity building in Africa, especially when there can be no state without an efficient public sector. In addition, the book addresses a number of theories such as the new institutional economics, public choice and new public management, which have in one way or another influenced most of the initiatives implemented under public sector reform in Africa. There is also a survey of the three phases of public sector reform which have emerged and the balance sheet of reform strategies, namely, decentralization, privatization, deregulation, agencification, co-production and public-private partnerships. It concludes by identifying possible alternative approaches such as developing a vigorous public sector ethos and sustained capacity building to promote and enhance the renewal and reconstruction of the African public sector within the context of the New Partnerships for Africa's Development (NEPAD), good governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Book Synopsis Building State Capacity in Africa by : Brian Levy
Download or read book Building State Capacity in Africa written by Brian Levy and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication considers options for strengthening institutional capacity within the public sector in African countries, by drawing on the experiences of public sector reform programmes in over a dozen African states. Issues discussed include: the relationship between governance and economic development, public expenditure and accountability, anti-corruption reforms, the politics of decentralisation, political structures and public service delivery.
Book Synopsis OECD Public Governance Reviews Skills for a High Performing Civil Service by : OECD
Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Skills for a High Performing Civil Service written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at the capacity and capabilities of civil servants of OECD countries and suggests approaches for addressing skills gaps through recruitment, development and workforce management
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Book Synopsis African Public Service by : United Nations. Division for Public Economics and Public Administration
Download or read book African Public Service written by United Nations. Division for Public Economics and Public Administration and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this publication is to raise awareness in the international community to the problems that confront civil service in Africa. The first part of this study consists of the proceedings of the second Pan-African Conference of Ministers of Civil Service, and presents the text of the Rabat Declaration. The second part explores and explains the changing role and image of the public service in Africa through the presentation of technical papers dealing with new challenges, professionalism and ethics.
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Good Governance by : Gerhard Anders
Download or read book In the Shadow of Good Governance written by Gerhard Anders and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Shadow of Good Governance traces the implementation of the good governance agenda in Malawi from the loan documents signed by the representatives of the government and the Bretton Woods institutions to the individual experiences of civil servants who responded in unforeseen ways to the reform measures. Ethnographic evidence gathered in government offices, neighbourhoods and the private homes of civil servants living in Malawi’s urban and peri-urban areas undermines the common perception of a disconnect between state institutions and society in Africa. Instead, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of civil servants’ attempts to negotiate the effects of civil service reform and economic crisis at the turn of the 21st century.
Book Synopsis The Quality of Governance by : Nadeem Ul Haque
Download or read book The Quality of Governance written by Nadeem Ul Haque and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collier and Gunning (1997) in a survey of the empirical African growth literature concluded that there is reasonable agreement between what the growth regressions find to be important and the variables suggested by the other literature. They identify four factors that seem to explain a large part of why Africa, especially Sub-Saharan African has not grown a lack of openness in product markets, extremely low social capital, high investor risk and poor public services. Surprisingly, the lack of formal finance is found to have a minor effect at both the aggregate level and the firm level. Their main argument that Africa stagnated because its governments were weak and inefficient, and oftentimes comprised of narrow rentseeking elites who undermined markets and considered the public sector to be a vehicle for delivering patronage. This role of the public sector reduced returns to investments in Africa as well as increased the already high risk in private investments. The natural response on the part of agents was to engage in capital flight and develop their social capital into risk-reduction and risk-bearing mechanisms at the expense of social learning. For the future, they argue that openness can not only directly improve conditions, but indirectly help better the state of the other three variables-lack of social capital, high risk and poor public services.
Book Synopsis Beyond Structural Adjustment by : Nicolas Van de Walle
Download or read book Beyond Structural Adjustment written by Nicolas Van de Walle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role of governance in African development. The goal of the book is to move beyond the status quo debates about 'structural adjustment' and to look at all the public and civic institutions which are likely to play a critical role if Africa is to overcome its economic crisis.
Book Synopsis The African Civil Service Fifty Years After Independence by : Emmanuel M. Mbah
Download or read book The African Civil Service Fifty Years After Independence written by Emmanuel M. Mbah and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the civil service in colonial and post-independence Africa. Using case studies from several countries, it examines the reasons for its growth and expansion; scrutinizes reform proposals, including ¿first and second generation¿ reforms and their implications; and formulates proposals for dealing with the civil service in future. The African Civil Service Fifty Years after Independence aims to examine the numerous challenges/structural problems faced by the civil service, especially during periods of austerity in Africa. The reader will discover, from reading the book, how complicated the civil service bureaucracy has become in Africa.
Book Synopsis Our Continent, Our Future by : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Download or read book Our Continent, Our Future written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Book Synopsis OECD Public Governance Reviews Engaging Public Employees for a High-Performing Civil Service by : OECD
Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Engaging Public Employees for a High-Performing Civil Service written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can governments reduce workforce costs while ensuring civil servants remain engaged and productive? This report addresses this question, using evidence from the 2014 OECD Survey on Managing Budgeting Constraints: Implications for HRM and Employment in Central Public Administration.
