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Title: Paradox of Public Sector Reforms in Malaysia: A Good Governance Perspective.
Author : Public Administration Quarterly
Release Date : January 22, 2007
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
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INTRODUCTION Issues in governance have, of late, become matters of growing concern in developed as well as developing countries. While major aid donors have initially played key roles in popularizing the concept of governance by making it a condition for granting aid to poorer countries, gradually it has received wider recognition from virtually all quarters. Currently, there seems to be a rare unity among aid agencies, international financial institutions, academics, government leaders, non-governmental organizations and civil society groups where they all see governance as a key to achieving sustainable development, despite diverse views on what constitutes governance, its measurement and ways of achieving it. Broad agreement on the centrality of good governance has paved the way for a new wave of governmental reforms initiated and implemented across the globe. Indeed, there has been such a proliferation of reforms that it is hard to find a government that has not lately initiated some form of reforms affecting its system of governance. Public sector reform has thus assumed a global character. The New Public Management (NPM), which gained currency in the 1990s, advocates redefinition of the role of the state in society and its relationship with the market alongside reforms for improving competence of the public bureaucracy (Pollitt, 1993). It is largely supportive of good governance agenda. Therefore, it has become a major element of governmental attempts to reshape and improve governance in many countries.