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Public Budgeting in African Nations aims to provide usable
budgeting and fiscal policy management information to development
practitioners interested in improving the performance of
governments in the context of good governance. It shares regional
and cross-cultural experiences with international audiences and
gives reflective attention to comparative budgeting and fiscal
policy management. With a promising economic and fiscal forecast,
such information is timely for international development
practitioners and for scholars and researchers interested in
advancing development management. This book adopts an
interdisciplinary/pragmatic approach to analyze and present
research findings on public budgeting as a sustainable development
tool. The central argument is that development practice will
benefit from a bottom-up, decentralized approach to budgeting and
fiscal policy management, involving national, sub-national, and
civil society institutions. From this perspective, a balanced
budget should draw from and reflect values and priorities across
the full spectrum of social and political life.
With contributions from leading regional scholars, Public
Administration in Africa: Performance and Challenges examines the
complexities of the art of governance from the unique African
perspective. The editors bring together a cohesive study of the
major issues and regions by taking an analytic approach with the
strong problem-solution application. Regions addressed range from
South Africa, Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius, and
Botswana. Themes include colonialism, reform, poverty, economy,
decentralization, financing, media, political structures, and more.
Beginning with an analysis of the relationship of policy design and
its destination, service delivery, the book discusses the
historical development of a state that has gone through upheavals
in government and explores a decayed political economy that
ultimately results in a need for sweeping measures. The text
examines the issues emerging policy-makers in Africa must tackle,
namely poverty and the denial or lack of resources to keep a
dignified human life. It highlights how the media can be a catalyst
for good governance and provides analytical aspects of implementing
good governance reforms. The book concludes with an examination of
the concepts of decentralization and devolution in measuring
service delivery performance and an exploration of Africa's
economic success story. It also details the African Peer Review
Mechanisms in selected African countries and provides a holistic
analysis of local government functioning in Africa. These features
and more make it an interdisciplinary reference for diverse social,
economic, political, and administrative issues.
There is a growing global interest in Africa and how to improve the
quality of life of its people-and for good reason. The world can no
longer afford to ignore the democratic changes that have occurred
across the continent over the past two decades, changes with
tremendous implications for professional education and training for
the tasks of nation building. Public Administration Training in
Africa: Competencies in Development Management presents research
findings related to talent and competency development within the
framework of public service institutional capacity building. The
book focuses on public administration questions as they relate to
training, development, and competency building that will strengthen
public managers' capacity to implement governance policies and work
toward improving development management. It draws on unique
national experiences to provide research and scholarship that
advance the dialogue on training and development relevant to
African culture and history while at the same time contributing to
enhance the field of practice. In addition to offering detailed
descriptions and analyses of unique national experiences, the book
also integrates transnational issues of training and development
and ties the discussions back to the body of knowledge and
scholarship defining the field and discipline of public
administration. As scholars and experts in their own right, the
authors make a reasoned case for rethinking and re-examining
training and development in Africa in light of the emerging
governance approach to public administration. The comprehensive
empirical descriptions and analyses of education and training
contexts and cultures written by some of the best minds in the
subfield give you the latest research findings and distill relevant
experiential and theoretical knowledge, tools, and skills based on
case analyses, including carrying out development activity in
different cross-cultural contexts.
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