Challenges of public management in Global South

Resumen

Many developed countries become successful in their governance through instituting public management albeit global south countries face some challenges to follow it in their administrative operations. In the post Second World War period, newly independent countries faced multidimensional challenges that need to be addressed by an effective and efficient administration. Many countries in global south have been struggling against these challenges by their inherited administration. But the administration of these countries is traditional in nature, formalistic in operation, and bureaucratic in process. In 1980s a number of global south countries took initiatives to reform and restructure their administration through instituting public management which considers that non-profit government administration resembles profitable private administration in some important ways as such, there are some management tools appropriate in public and in private both domains. This article looks into the challenges are faced by global south countries to institute public management, how these challenges emerge, and how these challenges could be met.