Accounting is an instrument and an object in globalisation but its impact and manifestation is
not uniform across Northern developed countries and Southern developing countries (DCs) …

The term governance does not have a settled definition today, and it has at least three main
meanings. The first is international cooperation through nonsovereign bodies outside the …

China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but Beijing has
fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars, and journalists by shrouding its grant …

Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce
reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have …

Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary
ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book …

Many development initiatives fail to improve performance because they promote isomorphic
mimicry—governments change what they look like, not what they do. This article proposes a …

In January 2014, the government of Indonesia issued Law 6/2014 on Villages, primarily to
address weaknesses in the decentralisation paradigm by improving governance …

Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North
America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of …

Abstract Ideas are strangely absent from modern models of political economy. In most
prevailing theories of policy choice, the dominant role is instead played by “vested interests” …

Under the authoritarian rule of President Suharto, Indonesia built one of the world's largest
bureaucracies. However, it suffered from a range of problems including rampant corruption …