Public sector management components of structural adjustment loans (SALs) progressed unevenly, and the outcomes varied with different political, administrative

Overstaffed bureaucracies afflicted by eroding salaries, demoralization, corruption, moonlighting, and chronic absenteeism are often unable to carry out the key

This paper assesses the efforts of the World Bank to improve management in the public sectors of its borrower countries. It identifies the problems that created