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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Fritz, Verena |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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From form to function to sustainable solutions? reforming public sectors in low income countries: new approaches and available evidence of "what works" |
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2016 |
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p.299-312. |
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Dec |
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The article reviews the evidence about success of public sector reforms in low and middle income countries, external support for such reforms, and recent ideas of how such support could be better designed and implemented. Enthusiasm for supporting public sector reforms has decreased over the past decade, and available data suggest that there has been little overall improvement. However, it also indicates that a small number of countries have significantly strengthened their public sectors over the past 10 to 20?years. The article then reviews five new approaches that have been proposed for better supporting public sector reforms. It looks at how they diagnose what has not worked and the implications of what should be carried out differently. Furthermore, it explores to what extent the available evidence of overall stagnation as well as of success cases fits with these proposed alternatives, to gauge to what extent they are likely to make a difference. The final section sets out the implications. Development agencies should seek to deliberately test a combination of the proposed alternative approaches, particularly in more difficult contexts, taking political feasibility as a basis and adding other elements. The urgency to make progress remains high. - Reproduced. |
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Administrative reform |
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Public Administration and Development |
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