"It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak, and the public sector especially is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the...

Introduction / Robyn Pilcher -- Differential reporting : what does it really mean for the public sector? / Robyn Pilcher & David Gilchrist -- Depreciation in local government : still the problems continue / Robyn Pilcher -- The consequences of the current public sector reporting framework for...

Recent decades have seen almost unprecedented economic growth in income per capita around the world. Yet this extraordinary overall performance masks a wide variation in growth rates across different countries, with persistent underdevelopment in some parts of the world. This disparity...