Enhancing the interface between Government Policy and decision-making entities and research/training insitutions in support of economic reform and development in Africa: senior policy workshop

Abstract

It has taken more than two decades for the "policy revolution" to reach developing countries.Although challenges to the policy making systems in developing countries were recognized both by indigenous leadership and international organizations at the beginning of the development decades, it is only recently that any systematic attention is being paid to the question of improving structures and processes of public policy-making.Some of the pioneers in promoting global studies of public policy-making did emphasize in their writings the crucial importance of improving public policy-making as a major approach to meet the development challenge and probably as the only way of minimizing the widening gap between industrialized and developing countries.