Administrative reform in post-war Lebanon; donor prescriptions and local realities.9789042303126 Administrative reform in post-war Lebanon; donor prescriptions and local realities. El Ghaziri, Nisrine. Shaker Shaker Member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a celibate millenarian sect. Derived from a branch of the radical English Quakers (see Society of Friends), the movement was brought to the U.S. Publishing BV 2007 329 pages $57.65 Paperback JQ1828 After about 14 years of civil war, Lebanon was obliged o·blige v. o·bliged, o·blig·ing, o·blig·es v.tr. 1. To constrain by physical, legal, social, or moral means. 2. to reconstruct a large part of its governmental infrastructure, particularly its public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. . Major donors to this effort included the World Bank, the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community and the United Nations Development Programme. Here El Ghaziri, who was a staff member in a reform institution in Lebanon, checks out her observation that donor demands and the manner of their relationships with Lebanon and each other diluted efforts to affect reform and move Lebanon closer to public management. Her dissertation investigates Lebanon's efforts at administrative reform and analyzes those reforms and their justification. She explains donor assumptions, policy constraints, policy-making pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: in terms of power contests and the discourse and management style of donors, the dynamics of donor conditions in designing and managing the reform organization, the challenges in implementing donor demands, and the implications of her findings on current theory and practice. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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