Does new public management work in reforming the states role in agricultural marketing in developing countries?
Author InfoMichael Hubbard (School of Public Policy, The University of Birmingham, UK) Marisol Smith (formerly at School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK) Abstract The research investigated the extent to which ‘new public management’ style reforms (in which the state confines itself to contracting, guiding, facilitating and financing in providing public services, rather than delivering them itself through civil service organizations) are successful in the institutional context of developing countries. Studies of reform of public services to agricultural marketing were conducted in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, with additional case studies in Ivory Coast and Kenya. While the broad direction of change is towards liberalized markets, reforms of government organizations in agricultural marketing are much slower than reforms to liberalize domestic trade, owing to low adaptive capacity in government organizations. Other findings are that reforms have consisted su
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