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DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION- OBSTACLES, THEORIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING
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Public administration is a strategic factor in economic and social development.
It influences and determines the success of any development plan, and is at the
same time susceptible to deliberate social control and change. The inadequacy
of administration in many developing countries is now recognized as a major
obstacle to development, perhaps more serious an obstacle than the lack of
capital or foreign aid. Herbert Emmerich, a noted scholar and administrator,
estimates that 80 per cent of the plans of the world are incapable of being fulfilled
because of administration. (1)
The term 'development administration' can be used in a broad sense, to e m brace
the variety of approaches and points of view that mark the study of public
administration in developing countries. Some writers have sought to assign a
more restricted and precise meaning to the term, but their attempts have been
arbitrary and conflicting. Some speak of 'development administration' in order
to emphasize the inadequacy of the established discipline of 'public administration',
others treat the field as merely an application of the traditional study;
still others use the term with neither connotation. Some use the term in the
sense of 'the administration of development'; others are thinking of the development
of administration; still others see these concepts as two sides of the same
coin. Another important school of thought which studies the role and problems
of administration in developing countries calls its field 'comparative public
administration'. The battle over meanings and labels is symptomatic of substantive
differences in approach and outlook - which, we shall see, have
important implications for planning
Peter W . Rodman - Personal Name
1st Edition
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DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION- OBSTACLES, THEORIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING
Management
English
1998
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