Bureaucracy and Pro-poor Change

Ali Cheema and Asad Sayeed
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Ali Cheema: Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore
Asad Sayeed: Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi

No 2006:3, PIDE-Working Papers from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abstract: This paper takes a political economy perspective in analysing the nature and causes on the decline in bureaucratic conduct. Section 1 lays out the details of this structure. Based on a logical model which places the bureaucracy within the larger context of the objective function of the state, the nature of the political process, the degree of centralisation and fragmentation of the bureaucratic structure and processes for monitoring and accountability of the bureaucracy, this model provides the basis for subsequent analysis. Section 2 provides a historical overview with regard to changes in the bureaucratic and political structure and the impact it had on the above mentioned balance between bureaucratic conduct and political compulsions. Section 3 then analyses the consequences on service delivery that this systematic weakening of the bureaucratic structure has had. Section 4 then critically assesses some of the recent attempts at bureaucratic reform in the light of the framework developed in Section 1. The conclusion then summarises the paper and draws implications for pro-poor change of the structure and conduct of the bureaucratic structure in Pakistan

Keywords: Poverty; Poor; Bureaucracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages.
Date: 2006
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