Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Emerging Economies

In the recent decade, governments worldwide are increasingly focusing on being community-centric and outcomes-based. Consequently, they are starting to move towards outcomes-based approaches to public financial management systems.

PART I Africa 1. Pursuing Results: Results-Based Management in the Kenyan Public Sector Robert Ochoki Nyamori 2. Implementation issues of outcomes-based budgeting in an Egyptian government agency Ahmed O. R. Kholeif PART II Central America 3. Outputs vs. Outcomes: Quality of Services in Honduran Municipalities Francisco Bastida and Lorenzo Estrada PART III East Asia 4. Reforming the public sector for the Saemaul Undong in Korea Jin-Kwang So PART IV South-East Asia 5. Outcome-based measures in socialist performance evaluation system: Evidence and lessons from Vietnam Kate Mai 6. Temporalizing the healthy self-governing citizen: Singapore's successful healthcare neoliberal project Chin Moi Loh, Chu Yeong Lim and Mark Christensen 7. Implementation of Outcomes-Based Budgeting System in the Malaysian Government Zakiah Saleh, Che Ruhana Isa and Haslida Abu Hasan 8. Capturing traditions and preserving outcomes: evidence from Malaysian river-care programmes Soon Yong Ang and Danture Wickramasinghe 9. Implementation of Outcome-Based Budgeting in Indonesia- The Case of Ministry of Environment and Forestry Bambang Setiono PART V South Pacific 10. Public Sector Paradigm Shift to an Outcome-based Focus: Insights from Fiji Nirmala Nath and Umesh Sharma PART VI Western Asia/South-Eastern Europe 11. Analysis of Performance Indicators in Public Universities: The Case of Turkey Emin Zeytinoglu PART VII Middle East 12. Public sector reforms in Iran: Implications for performance-based budget practice Farzaneh Jalali Aliabadi PART VIII South Asia 13. Public Budgeting in Bangladesh: An Earnest Quest for Transparency and Accountability Nikhil Chandra Shil, Zahirul Hoque and Anup Chowdhury 14. Outcome-based Budgeting in India: An Analysis of a Central Government Flagship Scheme Seema Miglani 15. Outcome-based Control Systems and Accountability Dilemma in Foreign Funded Development Projects: A Sri Lankan Case Chathurani Rathnayaka and Kenneth Weir