 |
||
|
||
BOOK REVIEW |
|
||
|
||
BOOK REVIEW |
On Public Management The book shows the
importance of new public management in achieving good governance By A CORRESPONDENT When the countries around the world have been expressing dissatisfaction over the performance of the public management, the new book explains what is required to bring about the change. From common citizens to politicians and from members of civil society to the members of administration, all of them are critical about public management system. They complain that the public management is too slow, too expensive and too alienated from the actual needs of the people. Current debate about good governance promoted by the World Bank, OECD and other institutions is based on negative applications like no corruption, no misuse of public funds and no nepotism. But there are also definitions with a positive objective propounded by Friedrich Naumann Foundation. According to the definition, good governance is a form of governance and public administration, which is able to provide efficiently, i.e. to satisfy the needs of the people. This definition corresponds to what New Public Management is meant to achieve. “New Public Management is currently the most relevant management system of public administration worldwide and has been launched in almost all industrial states. Developed in the Anglo-American sphere of influence from the second half of the eighties onwards NPM, has, particularly in New Zealand, already been implemented to a large extent. Public enterprises were privatized, private and public labor markets deregulated,” writes Peter Schroder. “New Public management does not have the same meaning for everybody. For some it is a system of decentralized management with new management instruments like controlling, benchmarking and lean management. For others it means the maximum possible privatization of public responsibilities.” India’s big city Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has already introduced the new management system to cater to the needs of ever growing population of the city. “NPM looks at the internal improvements of the organizations as well as bringing efficiency in delivering services to the customer-base. The decision of the Bangalore Mahanagar Palika to admit the F-BAS (Fund Based Accounting System) is one of the steps to bring accountability and transparency in the public service,” writes Subod Kumar, executive with the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung and Raj Cherubal, a liberal activist based in Bangalore. At a time when Nepal is also trying to improve the public management system, the book could certainly give new ideas. New Public
Management WTO: Where To Go From Cancun? Published by: Frederic Naumann Stiftung Pages: 24 Whither WTO The book discusses
where the WTO is heading following the Cancun meet By A CORRESPONDENT Although Nepal has become the 148th country to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), there are only a few people who know all about what the WTO means and how it is going help or affect them in the years ahead. The book also includes the edited speech by Dr. Otto Count Labsdorff, chairman of the Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. The new Liberal Digest, a publication of Friedrich Naumann Foundation on WTO, has all the answers of the questions regarding the WTO. In his speech Dr. Lambsdorff indicates that rule making, accompanied by improved market access should help to sustain higher rates of global economic growth and poverty reduction in addition to helping developing countries better integrate into the world economy. “As liberals, we know that trade is everything else but a zero sum game. This is why Europeans appreciate and support the progress of economic reform and trade liberalization in Asia,” writes Dr. Lambsdorf. “The exchange between Asia and Europe is steadily growing and we both need strong trading partners.” In his article on A Basic Introduction to WTO, Subodh Kumar explains all important aspects of WTO including its objective, functions and structures. On a word of caution, Dr. Lambsdorff suggests communicating what is really at stake to the broader public in all countries. This would be imperative to fight the wrong facts and misconceptions popularized by the anti-global activists,” writes Hubertus von Welck, regional director. |
Send your feedback to the
editor: spot@mail.com.np |
