Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa : Lessons of Experience for a Region in Transition, Paperback / softback Book

Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa : Lessons of Experience for a Region in Transition Paperback / softback

Edited by Robert P. Beschel, Tarik M. Yousef

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsivePolitical upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have obscured efforts by many countries in the region to reform their public sectors.

Unwieldy, unresponsive-and often corrupt-governments across the region have faced new pressure, not least from their publics, to improve the quality of public services and open up their decisionmaking processes.

Some of these reform efforts were under way and at least partly successful before the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2010.

Reform efforts have continued in some countries despite the many upheavals since then. This book offers a comprehensive assessment of a wide range of reform efforts in nine countries.

In six cases the reforms targeted core systems of government: Jordan's restructuring of cabinet operations, the Palestinian Authority's revision of public financial management, Morocco's voluntary retirement program, human resource management reforms in Lebanon, an e-governance initiative in Dubai, and attempts to improve transparency in Tunisia.

Five other reform efforts tackled line departments of government, among them Egypt's attempt to improve tax collection and Saudi Arabia's work to improve service delivery and bill collection. Some of these reform efforts were more successful than others.

This book examines both the good and the bad, looking not only at what each reform accomplished but at how it was implemented.

The result is a series of useful lessons on how public sector reforms can be adopted in MENA.

Information

Save 13%

£37.00

£31.85

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information