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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).
Since it achieved independence in 1957, the West African state of
Ghana has become the torchbearer of African liberation, as well as
a laboratory for the study of endemic problems facing the African
continent. In terms of democratic consolidation, the country holds
a unique position on the continent as beacon of stability and
democracy. Politics, Governance, and Development in Ghana takes
critical stock of the landmark themes that have dominated its
history since independence. The contributors address issues such as
citizenship, civil society, the military, politicians, chiefs,
transnational actors, the public sector and policies, the executive
branch, decentralization, the economy, electoral politics, natural
resources, and relations with Asia and the diaspora. These themes
support “mobilizing for Ghana’s future,” which is the theme
for the diamond jubilee celebration of Ghana’s independence.
Edited by Joseph R.A. Ayee, this book will deepen the literature on
studies on Ghana especially in the areas of politics, governance,
economy and development; serve as a resource for academics,
students, practitioners; and commemorate the diamond jubilee
celebration of Ghana’s independence.
Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design
and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely
been told through the filters of development partners and the
Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action
examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate
changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous
future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the
achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its
people, and its external partners in fashioning out and
implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies. This edited
volume, by a group of independent researchers, examines Ghana's
experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone,
the lessons learned, and fills the void in the development
literature.
Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design
and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely
been told through the filters of development partners and the
Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action
examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate
changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous
future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the
achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its
people, and its external partners in fashioning out and
implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies. This edited
volume, by a group of independent researchers, examines Ghana's
experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone,
the lessons learned, and fills the void in the development
literature.
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