A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management. Along the way, program efficiency and effectiveness help rebuild public confidence in government. Whether through regular measurement of program inputs, activities, and outcomes, or through episodic one-shot studies, performance monitoring plays a central role in the most important current reform efforts. Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector, now available in paperback, is based on experiences derived from comparative analysis in different countries. It explains why there is interest in perfor!mance monitoring in a given setting, why it has failed or created uncertainties, and identifies criteria for improving its design and use.

I: Performance Monitoring: An Overview; 1: Effective Performance Monitoring: A Necessary Condition for Public Sector Reform; II: Designing and Implementing Effective Performance Monitoring; 2: Establishing Performance Monitoring: The Role of the Central Unit; 3: Performance Monitoring for Budget Management: A New Role of the Budget Center; 4: Public Sector Reform Strategy: A Giant Leap or a Small Step?; 5: Performance-Monitoring Systems: A Basis for Decisions?; 6: Accountability for Program Performance: A Key to Effective Performance Monitoring and Reporting; III: Comparing Performance Monitoring in Policy Areas; 7: The Performance-Monitoring System in the Korean Government, With Special Reference to Health Care; 8: A System for Monitoring and Control of Health Services: The Case of Mexico; 9: Measuring Police Performance; 10: Monitoring the Efficiency, Quality, and Effectiveness of Policy Advice to Government 1; 11: Performance Monitoring: Implications for the Future