ABSTRACT
The reason is that developed countries have administrative systems which, by and large, are already adapted to the needs of a complex and diversified economy, and a considerable pool of business talent upon which the government may draw; while underdeveloped countries have neither, and therefore cannot look at their public enterprises against a background of the same assumptions. The country concerned, therefore, is initially confronted with the task, not of balancing the public sector against the private sector and providing for smooth co-ordination between the two, but of using such resources and skills as the state can muster to get the whole process of development under way. Politicians generally are more interested in the manœuvres characteristic of their occupation than in administrative reform, and are all too ready to interfere, on behalf of constituents or pressure-groups, in matters which they do not understand.
