This was first published in 2000: An important study of economic development policy which focuses on the relationship between administrative reform and economic development.

Contents: Linking administrative reform to economic development: issues and the national experience, Kuotsai Tom Liou; Administrative reform and the Arab world economic growth, Jamil E. Jreisat; Continuities in dependency: from comparative administration to economic globalization - Australian perspectives, Alexander Kouzmin, Alan M.G. Jarman and Nada Korac-Kakabadse; Privatization strategies adopted for public sector reform in India: determinants and constraints, Alka Sapat; Administrative reform and national economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (post-dictatorships), Carl E. Meacham; Administrative reform in Nigeria's post-independent economic development, Alex Sekwat; Administrative reform and economic development in South Africa, Victor G. Hilliard; Man of efficiency and man of ethics: can China's administrative reform produce both for her economic development?, Stephen K. Ma; Administrative reform and economic development in Croatia, Keith M. Henderson; Administrative reform and economic development in Mongolia, 1990-1997: a critical perspective, Frederick I. Nixson and Bernard Walters; Administrative reform in Russia's economic development, Lev Jakobson; Political, social and administrative change in the Balkans: Bulgaria 1989-1998, Raymond A. Sharpek, Todor Tanev and Albena Taneva; Index.