Bureaucratic Performance in Developed and Developing Countries: A Review of Recent Literature and Developments.

BUREAUCRATIC Corruption in Subsaharan Africa (Book); WORLD Development Report 1983 (Book); ETHICS in the Public Service: Comparative Perspectives (Book); PUBLIC Personnel Management in Asian Civil Services (Book)

This article presents information on several books. Some of the books which are being discussed in this article are: "Bureaucratic Corruption in Subsaharan Africa," edited by M.U. Ekpo; "World Development Report, 1983;" " Ethics in the Public Service: Comparative Perspectives," edited by K. Kernaghan and O.P. Dwivedi; and "Public Personnel Management in Asian Civil Services," edited by Heinrich Siedentopf. It is informed that all the major selections in Ekpo's book are based on the theme of public sector corruption in less developing countries from 1960s upwards. The book contains perhaps the best selection of readings of the literature on bureaucratic corruption. From this point of view it should serve as a good reference book for scholars and students of public administration. Siedentopf's book, with research grants from some German foundations and the United Nations Asian and Pacific Development Administration Centre, reviews developments in three areas of public sector personnel management-- professionalism, motivation and training-- as a means of inculcating public service values, with the hope that this might be the strategy that will overcome the problems of bureaucratic lapses.