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    <title>Thirty years of public sector reforms in Africa</title>
    <subTitle>selected country experiences</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Paulos Chanie</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mihyo, Paschal B.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2013</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The trajectory of public administration in Africa: Background -- Reforms without change: Kenya's unending "War on Corruption" -- Public sector reform amid adversity and uncertainty: The Zimbabwean experience -- The privatization and deregulation of Dar es Salaam's public transport, 1983-2010: Outcomes and dilemmas -- Integrating all stakeholders: Health service governance in Addis Ababa -- The ups and downs of business process re-engineering (BPR): A tale of two offices in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia -- The inside story of outsourcing: contract management capacity in Tanzania -- E-Government for good governance: The case of Tanzania -- The Quantity-Quality balance: reforms in university education in Uganda -- Making outcomes matter: programme-based budgeting for a better public sector in Mauritius -- Good intentions, poor results: reforming the academic organizational structureand performance management system at the University of Botswana -- Big growth and big mistakes: Telecoms in South Africa -- The performance of decentralization and public sector accountability reforms in Uganda -- Contracting out public services to private agents: Lessons from the management of local government contracts in Ghana -- Lessons and conclusions.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">editors Paulos Chanie (PhD), Paschal B. Mihyo (Prof.).</note>
  <note>Includes biographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Public administration</topic>
    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">AFR 320.963 Thi 2013</classification>
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