Efficiency as the rhetoric: Public-sector reform in Hong Kong explained

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-47

  Cheung, Anthony B L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; PRIVATISATION; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM; SECTORAL REFORM;

HONG KONG;

EID: 0029751580     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002085239606200102     Document Type: Article

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