... government expenditure plans, and has already taken its toll on infrastructure development. With respect to the goal of long term development, it is not any easier to separate public service and infrastructural development priorities. In his analysis of the newly industrialized countries of East Asia, Evans (2010:43) argues that an effective public service is a prior condition to infrastructural ... and industrial development. The rapid growth of the Asian Tigers was attributed to a public bureaucracy that was recruited based on meritocracy, ... to efficiency deterioration within the pu...

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