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Public administration in Africa : main issues and selected country studies / - Ibadan : Spectrum Books, c2002. - xix, 415 p. :

Originally published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-390) and index.

Public Administration in Africa addresses the main topics in the discipline, including governance context and reorientation of government, decentralization and intergovernmental relations, public financial management, human resources management, and accountability and transparency. The book reviews the experience of specific African countries, including a discussion of the main strengths and weaknesses of each national public administration system. The first part comprises ten chapters focused on the main issues in Public Administration and the second part comprises eleven chapters devoted to selected country studies. Countries discussed are: Benin, Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

ISBN: 0813336538 (alk. paper) 9780813336534

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Public administration
Politics and government

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa, Sub-Saharan

LC Class. No.: JQ1890 / .P83 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 351.67 / PUB