Subject(s): Policy sciences -- Public administration. -- Economic development. -- Development and administration -- Organizational environments- comparisons, contrasts and significance, public sector and its environment, foreign models and third world realities -- policy process - politics and technics : Contribution of policy,explanation of third world policy process, society centred models, state centred models, policy making process -- Bureaucracy- obstructing or facilitating development -- Administrative reform- continuing search for performance improvement : public private mixes -- Planning for development - solution or the problem : Planing in National level, developing countries, participatory rural appraisal -- Decentralization within the state in Asia, Africa, Latin America, south pacific -- Public enterprise reform - private sector solutions : Public enterprise, public enterprise performance, strategies for public enterprise reform, politics and feasibility -- Beyond the market, beyond the state- rise of NGOs -- International environment - external influences and governance - Colonial era, cold war, contemporary international environment, public management