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Public Sector Employment in Developing Countries: An Overview of Past and Present Trends

Marinakis, Andrés E. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 2, pp. 50-68

The debate on the public sector has been central in structural adjustment programmes applied in developing countries during recent years. The common grounds of the discussion have been the size of the public sector, its role and its efficiency in delivering services. The common criticisms of the...

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Demystifying Privatization in Developing Countries

Basu, Prahlad K. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 44-55

State intervention is needed to dismantle the protective regime of “government failure” and expose the developing economies to the new rigour of global competition and technological advancement. In addition to standing the test of welfare consequences, a developing country′s agenda for...

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Competence‐creation in the African public sector

Kamoche, Ken - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 4, pp. 268-278

Reveals that the public sector in Africa is increasingly coming under pressure to justify its very existence through …

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Guiding principles on civil service reform in Africa: an empirical review

Wescott, Clay - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 12 (1999) 2, pp. 145-170

The Guiding Principles on Civil Service Reform were endorsed by the Special Programme of Assistance for Africa (SPA) as …

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The Nature and Effectiveness of Training for Decentralised Administrative Systems in Africa

Balogun, M.J. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 1 (1988) 1, pp. 51-64

The factors which produced an excess of centralisation in Africa are described. The training needs arising from the new …

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Issues Affecting Faculty Development in African Management Institutions

Fadahunsi, Olu - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 1 (1988) 2, pp. 31-39

Management institutions in Africa experience socio‐economic problems far worse than any which exist in the Western …

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Manpower Policy Issues: Some Emerging Considerations Highlighted in African Countries

Fyfe, John; Birks, Stacey - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 1 (1988) 2, pp. 40-52

The growing interest of African governments in their manpower problems, a result of the new and more acute political and social pressures of the 1970s, has led to the hasty introduction of new labour market policy measures, intended to alleviate the problems. The impact of these measures are...

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Evaluating the effectiveness of export support services in developing countries

Tesfom, Goitom; Lutz, Clemens - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 3 (2008) 4, pp. 364-377

Purpose – The lack of detailed statistics in many developing countries makes it very difficult to assess the effect of export support services on the firm's export performance. Moreover, a fundamental factor that creates confusion is the lack of a straightforward causal relationship between a...

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The dimensionality of trade show performance in an emerging market

Tafesse, Wondwesen; Korneliussen, Tor - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 6 (2011) 1, pp. 38-49

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the underlying dimensions of trade show performance in an emerging market context. Firms in industrial and emerging markets typically differ in terms of access to firm level resource endowments. Such differences make attempts to generalize...

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Marketing to the “middle of the pyramid” in emerging markets using a social network perspective

Chikweche, Tendai; Fletcher, Richard - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 9 (2014) 3, pp. 400-423

implications – The study provides managers with insights on the potential role of social networks on marketing to the MOP in Africa … Europe ignoring the merging middle class in Africa. Hence, this research expands knowledge by providing basis for exploring … new insights on the emerging marketing opportunity within the middle class in Africa. …

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