The New Public Management (NPM) in the Sub-Saharan African Context

Over the past two decades, academics and
practitioners in the public sector in the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries
undertook to find practical ways to make governments
efficient, effective and economic. Their proposed solutions
include running government as a private business (i.e.
Managerialism) or getting private sector companies to do the
job on behalf of governments (i.e. privatisation). These two
generic options came to be known as the New Public
Management (NPM). The NPM principles were introduced and
often imposed on developing countries through privatisation
of public services. This book sheds some light on the
benefits and consequences of using private sector companies
to provide basic services in developing countries. This book
will be especially useful for researchers and students of
Public Administration and an invaluable tool for
professionals and practitioners in the public sector. This
book should also be a valuable source for non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations
(CBOs) lobbyists or anyone else who may be considering
utilizing the private sector companies to make government
work better.