Journal of
Public Administration and Policy Research

  • Abbreviation: J. Public Adm. Policy Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2480
  • DOI: 10.5897/JPAPR
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 152

Table of Content: November 2011; 3(9)

November 2011

National development in Nigeria: Issues, challenges and prospects

Development is critical and essential to the sustenance and growth of any nation. A country is classified as developed when is able to provide qualitative life for her citizenry. Nigeria in the last fifty years has been battling with the problems of development in spite of huge human, material and natural resources in her possession. The paper discussed the problems affecting national development as well as strategies...

Author(s): Tolu Lawal and Abe Oluwatoyin

November 2011

Devolution and political accountability: Some insights from Pakistan

  This paper studies the relationship between devolution and political accountability in District Dera Ismail Khan, KPK, Pakistan. It examines the extent of political accountability through the gates of popular participation in elections, level of transparency in decision making process and accessibility of general public to public information at grass roots level. The main findings of this paper are two fold....

Author(s): Najeebullah Khan and Ghulam Muhammad Kundi

November 2011

Corporate governance: Ownership structure, board structure and performance of public sector entities

  This study seek to examine ownership structure, board structure and their relationship with public sector entities’ performance in Uganda. A cross-sectional and correlational research design with a sample of 85 public sector entities in Uganda was used. The findings portrayed that, CEO duality is not yet an issue as far as the performance of public sector entities in Uganda is concerned. Findings...

Author(s): Immaculate Tusiime, Stephen K. Nkundabanyanga and Isaac N. Nkote