HUQUE, Ahmed Shafiqul <br/><br/>
Governance and public management :  the south asian context 

 - New York :  Marcel dekker,  2001 
<br/><br/> Public management in South Asia has had a chequered history. Emerging out of a past influenced by foreign domination, the countries of the region were recognized as separete nations after the conclusion of the Second War. Independence brought new challenges and responsbalities, and the region found it extremely difficult do make a compete break from the past, and establish a sound system of goverance upon the existing practices and institucions for public management. Political, social, economic and ethnic problems posed formidabel obstacles in the way of estalishing and reforming institucions, refining processes and strategies of management, and guilding the region toward a more efficient and effective system. Considering the aims and objectives of good governance, this paper establishes the importance of public management as an essential tool in the process. Faced with a vaiety of political, economic and social problems, the governments of South Asia are striving to keep up with the trend of establishing a system of good governance. This is usually done by streamlining the estructure of puclic management and developing a collaborative relationship between the policital leadership and the civil service