The changing role of the state in society and the economy, new orientations in public sector management and reform, and the growing importance of voluntary organizations and entrepreneurs have given new meaning to the concept of development management. This book argues that the task of managing...

The central argument of this article is that institutional capacity building in sub‐Saharan Africa in the 1990s must be related simultaneously to the issues of both economic development and of governance. The importance of institutions that are undergirded by democratic values, especially...

Reviews the crisis of the inherited career Civil Service system in Sub‐Saharan African countries and argues for a small career service that would be adjusted to the imperatives of a market economy and political pluralism. Concludes with suggestions on the rationalization of employment and pay,...