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Knowledge-Based Public Sector Reform: The Philippine Experience

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This chapter discusses the state of governance in the Philippines in the most general terms. It also discusses the imperatives of knowledge-based public sector reform in relation to the ultimate goal of making governance and public administration institutions more responsive to the needs of the people, and restoring trust in government. More specifically, at the outset, we discuss two major public sector reform (PSR) strategies : reorganization and decentralization.

This research study was undertaken by the Philippine Society for Public Administration (PSPA) for the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). It is part of a bigger “Research Project on Leadership and Management Development in Asian Countries” commissioned by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The leadership and guidance of Professor Kiyotaka Yokomichi and Professor Masaei Matsunaga of the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. National College of Public Administration and Governance University of the Philippines (UP-NCPAG), Quezon City, Philippines

    Alex B. Brillantes, Bootes Esden Lopos & Lizan E. Perante-Calina

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  1. Department of Global Business, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ayano Hirose Nishihara

  2. Infrastructure and Peacebuilding Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan

    Masaei Matsunaga

  3. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ikujiro Nonaka

  4. National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiyotaka Yokomichi

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Brillantes, A.B., Lopos, B.E., Perante-Calina, L.E. (2018). Knowledge-Based Public Sector Reform: The Philippine Experience. In: Hirose Nishihara, A., Matsunaga, M., Nonaka, I., Yokomichi, K. (eds) Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57478-3_10

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