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Introduction: New Public Management: An African Reform Paradigm?

par Dele Olowu

  • Dele Olowu
    Dele Olowu
      Convenor. Governance, Democratization and Public Policy Programme, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands; Former Expert 011 Governance and Capacity Building at the United Nations Economic Com mission and Professor of Public Administration and Local...
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  • Dele Olowu

     Convenor. Governance, Democratization and Public Policy Programme, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands; Former Expert 011 Governance and Capacity Building at the United Nations Economic Com mission and Professor of Public Administration and Local Government, Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-lfe. Nigeria.

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