Selected papers from the launching conference of the Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG). Jabes, J. (Ed.). (2005). The role of public administration in alleviating poverty and improving governance. Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Asian Development Bank.

Introductory papers -- Paradoxes of human nature and public management reform -- Poverty and governance: the role of the state, good governance and an enabling policy framework in poverty alleviation in Malaysia -- Session 1: Leadership and change management -- Leadership and change management -- Leadership in public administration for alleviating poverty and development: a conceptual approach -- Gender responsive governance in India: the experience of Rajasthan -- Administrative discretion and representative bureaucracy: linking descriptive representation to substantive representation -- Educating and training Japanese government officials: current trends and policy study aspects -- Session 2: Strengthening democratic institutions -- Workshop on strengthening democratic institutions - convenor's report -- A values-based approach to public sector reform: the Australian experience -- Local government in Bangladesh: major issues and challenges -- Strengthening democratic institutions in Nepal: issues and challenges -- The role of civil service training in strengthening democratic institutions in Pakistan -- Deliberate democracy and electoral fallacy: the logic of coexistence -- Poverty alleviation and peace building in multiethnic societies: the need for multiculturalist governance in the Philippines (Macapado A. Muslim) -- Session 3: Citizen empowerment through participation -- Citizen empowerment through participation in the context of poverty alleviation (Victoria A. Bautista) -- A state of learning: strategies for reducing social and economic disadantage at the personal, local and state level -- Addressing poverty through self help groups - a case study of Korea -- Citizen empowerment through participation - Pakistan's case -- People's organizations' interface in poverty alleviation program: the CIDSS experience (Lilibeth Jovita J. Juan and Napoleon Allan Prieto) -- The institutional design and citizen participation in local governance -- Foreign aid and civil society: an assessment of USAID policy assumptions in India -- Section 4: Economic and financial management -- Workshop on economic and financial management -- The urban poverty problem and the minimum living security system in the People's Republic of China -- The development-oriented poverty reduction program for rural People's Republic of China: a successful case in the international campaign to alleviate poverty -- Governing through governance: changing social policy paradigms in post-mao People's Republic of China -- Poverty reduction in Bangladesh: does good governance matter? -- Privatization challenges for good governance - a case of India -- Impact assessment of poverty alleviation programs in India - some administrative and institutional issues -- Options for fiscal policies aimed at sustaining education, health care, and social protection systems in the Kyrgyz Republic -- Public service delivry mechanis, and rural poverty in Nepal -- Poverty alleviation in Uzbekistan's strategy of national development -- Section 5: Effective public service delivery -- Poverty alleviation through effective public service delivery -- Improving governance and services: can e-government help? -- Rural poverty alleviation in India: an assessment of public programs -- Improving public service delivery through bureaucracy reform -- Mutually reinforcing cycles of public service delivery and poverty reduction program: lessons from the implementation of social safety net program in Indonesia -- Session 6: Special session on the teaching of public administration and policy -- Teaching public policy and administration: controversies and directions -- "But it's different in my country": teaching public administration using Western materials -- Managing group work in public policy program -- Teaching public policy in MPA programs in the People's Republic of China -- Using extended role-plays to develop policy and decision-making skills in cases where interpretations of what is in the 'Best Public Interest' are strongly contested -- Dialogues in public administration: a New Zealand-Vietnamese case study -- Enhancing the role of public administration education to support the attainment of the millennium development goals (Joel V. Mangahas) -- Teaching policy analysis in a complex world: the post-positivist route for programs in Asia and the Pacific -- Power implications of lecture and participatory teaching techniques