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Synopsis The concept of Development Administration is a post World War II evolution within the discipline of public administration. Since its emergence in the early nineteen fifties, the subject of development administration has undergone veritable changes culminating into the now universally accepted concept of Good Governance with Equitable Development. A number of strategies have since been and are being devised to achieve its goals not only by the developing nations for purposes of furthering development, but by all the countries of the world in pursuit of excellence in administrative performance.

The present study in essence is a brief, but a critical examination of the various changing paradigms of the concept of Development Administration and the administrative changes and reforms carried out in the developing nations. It analyses the role of state, public administration, public services and the initial four decades of crises in the evolution of the conceptual framework of development administration. It examines the phenomenon of failed developmental goals, and the concomitant evolution of the new paradigms of sustained development, market economy, globalization and the impact of the New Public Management, culminating into the concept of Good Governance, in directing managing and controlling of the means used in and by the Third World countries to achieve equitable development. It is hoped that the new paradigms of development administration discussed in the book would be most topical and useful to the scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners of public administration, who are in search of innovative strategies and tools for evolving new methodology to address the problems of the developing world.