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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012f75rb827| Title: | Public Sector Reforms in Africa: Nigerian Perspectives |
| Contributors: | Adewumi, Funmi Idowu, William |
| Keywords: | Nigeria Africa reforms capitalism pension civil service public service public service reforms |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Publisher: | CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) |
| Place of Publication: | Dakar, Senegal |
| Series/Report no.: | CODESRIA book series |
| Description: | Since the end of the Cold War and the ascendancy of capitalism as the dominant ideology in a new world order championed by the United States of America, conscious efforts have been ongoing to impose the current version of capitalism, neo-liberalism, on the rest of the world. The push for less involvement of the state in running enterprises as well as the cut in public expenditure are components of this paradigm shift, that are well articulated in the economic reform package of the Obasanjo government labelled National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategies (NEEDS), put together at the behest of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a follow-up to the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (IPRSP) presented to the Fund by Nigeria like some other debtor countries in order to obtain some relief. All the sundry excuses given by the Nigerian government as justifications for the PSR are meant to create the false impression that the reform was its own initiative. The major aim of the reform was cost-cutting, hence the obsession with down-sizing the public service workforce and selling off of public enterprises allegedly because they have not justified investments in them over time. The fact that two out of the four key 'legs' of NEEDS address ‘macroeconomic stability as Texte Fumi et ....pmd 3 18/12/2012, 10:40 4 Public Sector Reforms in Africa: Nigerian Perspectives well as accelerated privatisation and liberalisation of the economy’ and ‘public service reform, including reform of public expenditure, budgeting, accounting, etc’ (Adegoroye 2005) underscore the obsession with cost reduction. It is against this background that the chapters in this book examine the public sector reform agenda of the Obasanjo government, bringing to the fore many issues, some fundamental, which those driving the reform have conveniently ignored or downplayed. Critical questions such as the rationale for the reforms, the efficacy of the policy options, among other things, are posed. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012f75rb827 |
| ISSN: | 978-2-86978-538-0 |
| Related resource: | http://www.codesria.org |
| Appears in Collections: | Serials and series reports (Publicly Accessible) - CODESRIA |
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| 0-Public_Sector_Prelim.pdf | 109.46 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 1-Public_Sector_Introduction_Adewumi_Idowu.pdf | 125.38 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 2-Public_Sector_Monye-Emina.pdf | 192.75 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 3-Public_Sector_Massoud_Omar.pdf | 194.86 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 4-Public_Sector_Idowu.pdf | 201.24 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 5-Public_Sector_Maikudi.pdf | 173.03 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 6-Public_Sector_Aborisade.pdf | 210.92 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 7-Public_Sector_Adewumi.pdf | 194.47 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download |
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