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AAPAM is a Non-Profit Organization that (since 1971) works to strengthen the administrative and management capacities of African public administration systems. Public Administrators, Managers, civil savant, Scholars, Teachers and researchers need access to contextually relevant quality publications from Africa in order to develop solutions to address the continent’s challenges in administration, managerial, learn institutions and Civil Service…

The volume opens with a unique article: Bureaucratic Theory and Public Sector Reforms in Nigeria: How far and How Effective? Adewale from Nigeria takes us back to the debate on bureaucratic theory and public sector reforms. Belew and Bekure from Ethiopia examine the importance of road infrastructure and its positive socio-economic impact on the economy and overall development. Wayne Charles-Soverall, calls on African leaders to implement…

Signed by 52 African countries, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is, by the number of participating countries, the largest trade agreement since the formation of the WTO. By 1 April 2019, only one year and ten days after the signature, the threshold of ratification by 22 countries required for the agreement’s entry into force had been reached. The speed of this ratification is unprecedented in African Union history.​ With so…

An understanding of the nature of economic growth is a central preoccupation of the present report. A pertinent analysis of economic growth is found in the work by Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, in which Gordon points out an often forgotten fact: that economic growth is neither steady nor continuous (Gordon, 2016). When growth occurs (or declines), therefore, it is essential that policymakers, researchers and analysts…

Building a Developmental State: Strategies for Attracting and Retaining High Quality Staff in the Public Service in Africa is a presentation during the 30th Africa Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) Annual Roundtable Conference Held in Accra, Ghana from 6th to 10th October 2008.   File added date: September 2021 Author: UN DESA/DPIDG Download Publication: English URL: https://publicadministration.un.org/publications/…