ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the evolution of development management from its roots in post-World War II foreign aid and the role played by the Comparative Administration Group in that process in order to provide a context for an understanding of development management debates. It examines the impact of international donors on development administration and the decline of the state-centric focus of development administration as a framework for development policy. The chapter examines the impact and weakness of structural adjustment processes, privatization, and nongovernmental organization-focused development models later labeled 'development management'. It discusses the rediscovery of the state in the 1990s and the renewed interest in governance from a public sector reform perspective. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the impact on nation building and state building and the development of the government approach to development management and public sector reforms in fragile and collapsed states.
