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    Development administration emerged in the 1950s and 1960s to help newly independent, developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa transition after WWII and achieve economic development and social progress. These countries sought to implement administrative reforms and induce social change through public services and policy to pursue development goals. Development administration focused on administering development and strengthening state capacity. It was seen as managing innovation and social transformation to help countries rebuild institutions. The Philippines used development administration principles in its development plans of the 1970s onward to guide economic and social development through bureaucratic reform.

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    Development administration emerged in the 1950s and 1960s to help newly independent, developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa transition after WWII and achieve economic development and social progress. These countries sought to implement administrative reforms and induce social change through public services and policy to pursue development goals. Development administration focused on administering development and strengthening state capacity. It was seen as managing innovation and social transformation to help countries rebuild institutions. The Philippines used development administration principles in its development plans of the 1970s onward to guide economic and social development through bureaucratic reform.

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    Development administration emerged in the 1950s and 1960s to help newly independent, developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa transition after WWII and achieve economic development and social progress. These countries sought to implement administrative reforms and induce social change through public services and policy to pursue development goals. Development administration focused on administering development and strengthening state capacity. It was seen as managing innovation and social transformation to help countries rebuild institutions. The Philippines used development administration principles in its development plans of the 1970s onward to guide economic and social development through bureaucratic reform.

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    Development administration emerged in the 1950s-1960s to help developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa with nation-building, economic development, and social progress after World War 2. It focused on administering development projects and reforming government institutions and public services to achieve development goals.

    Development administration emerged as a field of study in the 1950s-1960s focused on helping developing countries, which were largely in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. It aimed to help these countries rebuild after World War 2 and implement reforms to pursue economic development and social progress with the aid of Western countries.

    According to Khator, some core assumptions of development administration were that: 1) Development needs were the most important for developing countries 2) The development needs of developing and developed countries were different 3) Development could be administered 4) Development knowledge was transferable 5) Political, social and cultural contexts could be altered.

    Development Administration (1950s to 1960s) • Development Administration (DA) as a field of study

    emerged in 1950s and 1960s with the third world countries as the focal point. The term “third world”
    may be attributed to the French demographer and economic historian Alfred Sauvy, who at the height
    of the Cold War in 1952, used the term to distinguish developing countries outside the two power blocs;
    namely, the First World and the Second World respectively. (Chilcote 1984)

    Nef and Dwivedi (1981) on the other hand, attributed the concept of DA to Goswami in 1955 and later
    popularized by Riggs and Weidner. They coined the term “Development Administration” to refer to
    developing countries which are largely found in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. • These developing
    countries endeavored to make concerted efforts in order to be recognized as “emerging nations” and to
    resurrect themselves after World War II

    In the context of “emerging nation,” Landau (1970) described DA as the Engineering of Social Change.
    Likewise, according to Ilchman (1970), these countries were “concerned with increasing the capacity of
    the state to produce goods and services to meet and induce changing demands.” (Ilchman 1970: 136)

    Gant (1979) on the other hand, defined DA as not merely addressing state functions such as public
    service delivery and enforcement of laws but the inducement and management of change to pursue
    development aspirations. These developing countries were in urgent need to implement fundamental
    reforms in their politico-administrative machinery.

    Khator (1998) however, argued that DA was built upon several critical assumptions that:

    (1) development needs are the most important need developing countries,

    (2) the development needs of developing and developed countries are inherently different,

    (3) development can be administered, (4) developmental knowhows are transferable; and (5) the
    political, social, and cultural context of development can be easily altered.

    Likewise, Fred Riggs, in his “Frontiers of Development,” identified two foci in development
    administration: development of administration and the administration of development. Most
    development administration scholars focused more on the latter and it subsequently became
    synonymous to the administration of development in third world countries (Khator, 1998).

    Given the situations above, DA maybe considered as “Management of Innovation” because it was aimed
    at helping countries that are undergoing reconstruction and social transformation.

    In the Philippines, The term “Development Administration” was used to suggest that it may be an
    appropriate framework to examine the State’s experience as it tries to rebuild its institutions within a
    democratic framework, as it struggles to new economic, political and social challenges, and as it adapts
    to the trends and demands of globalization

    Additionally, DA principles have been among the major themes that ran through the various lectures
    and writings of Raul De Guzman, who together with OD Corpuz (1986) initially addressed the question:
    “Is there a Philippine PA?” Since the idea was to steer developing countries for economic development
    and social progress, the term DA became closely associated to foreign aid and western models of
    development.

    These Western countries provide grants and aids to developing countries for nationbuilding, economic
    development, institutional strengthening, and people participation in development

    As to administrative reform, which is one of the core values of DA, De Guzman (1986) described and
    analyzed the structural and behavioral characteristics of the Philippine public bureaucracy and argued
    that the “implementation of administrative reform should have two major dimensions: reforming the
    structures of the bureaucracy and reforming the behavior of those in the bureaucracy.

    (De Guzman 1986 as cited in Brillantes 1994: 8)

    Development administration has always been one of the central features of the various long and
    medium term Philippine Development Plans since the seventies. The paradigm for bureaucratic reform
    continues to evolve in various intellectual and practical debates but government continues its work
    amidst all these. Until recently, all Philippine development plans since the seventies had a specific
    chapter devoted solely to development administration

    Abstract

    The term “development administration” came into use in the 1950s to


    represent those aspects of public administration and those changes in public
    administration, which are needed to carry out policies, projects, and programs
    to improve social and economic conditions. During a period of 15 years
    following the end of World War II, in 1945, colony after colony threw off the
    imperial yoke. Country after country achieved independence and political
    autonomy. This new status gave promise of freedom and liberty and self-
    determination in political systems of representative democracy. It gave hope
    of greater individual freedom and equality of treatment in the society. And
    independence created hopes of higher national and per capita income, a rapid
    rise in standards of living, and an increase in individual opportunity. Even in
    countries which had not been colonies but had been administered by some
    other form of authoritarian government, this was a generation of rising and
    insistent expectations pressing for rapid political, social, and economic
    change. New governments and their bureaucracies, their administrative
    agencies and processes, were expected to give reality to these anticipated
    fruits of independence and liberty. These new functions, these demands upon
    the administration system, were not only enormous in size and weight, they
    were novel and complex in character.
    Citation
    Gant, G. (2006), "The Concept of Development Administration", Otenyo,
    E. and Lind, N. (Ed.) Comparative Public Administration (Research in Public
    Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing
    Limited, Bingley, pp. 257-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0732-1317(06)15009-5
    Download as .RIS

    The Influence of Development Administration on the Philippine Government¶s Administration


    of the Country¶s Development

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