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1. Introduction, Contextual Background and Scope -- 2. The Role of Public Administration in the State-building Process: A Literature Review -- 3. Public Administration in Eypt After the Arab Spring -- 4. Public Administration in Iraq: The Post-ISIS Transition -- 5. Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries: The Case of Palestine -- 6. Reconstructing Governance and Public Administration Capacities in Managing the Resettlement of Displaced Persons in North-East Nigeria -- 7. Post Conflict Reconstruction, Governance and Development: Had the Tide Turned in South Africa? -- 8. 35 Years of Reforms in Uganda: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? -- 9. Bangladesh: Passage through Conflict to Stability and Public Administration Reform -- 10. Public Administration in the Philippines: Overcoming Conflict and Post-Conflict Challenges -- 11. Croatian Public Administration: Good Governance Accompanies by an Authoritarian Legacy -- 12. Public Administration in Countries in Conflict: The Case of Georgia -- 13. Rebuilding Public Administration in Post-War Kosovo -- 14. Serbia: Stumbling Through to Better Compliance but Worse Performance -- 15. Ukrainian Public Administration as a Cross-Road -- 16. Public Administration, Institutional Capacity and Internal Conflict in Colombia: An Intertwined Relationship -- 17. Public Administration Reforms in Paraguay: Challenges to Professionalization -- 18. Venezuela: Devastating Effects of Long Conflict of Political Instability -- 19. Synthesis: The Relations Between Conflict and Public Administration Performance.

This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries. The main value added by this book is confirming the general expectation that there is no direct and universal link between the conflict and public administration performance (and vice-versa). One may need to argue that each country situation differs and specific factors of internal and external environments determine the trends of public administration performance in conflict affected countries. To achieve the overarching goal of the book, sixteen country studies were developed from all relevant continents - America, Africa, Asia and Europe: Bangladesh, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy is Senior Professor and Subnational Governance Specialist at the University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Juraj Nemec is Professor at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and at the Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. .

This statistical file is concerned with the issue of public debts in Arab countries. It assumes that public debt is a key source to fund the budget deficit in most Arab countries, and the rising public debt, particularly external debt, is increasingly becoming a concern for several countries in the region due to the pressure debt servicing might impose on these countries, which basically suffer an uncomfortable primary balance, in addition to the impact of crises in the region.
Table 1 provides indicators on domestic public debts with ratios of debts to GDP, while Table 2 gives figures of external public debts with debt ratios to GDP. Table 3 provides estimates of total public debts with their ratios to GDP, while Tables 4 and 5 show figures of external public debt service, ratios of debt servicing to exports of goods and services and external public debt service ratios to Arab governments' revenues respectively.

The focus of the paper is on selected comparative models in public administration (human research system, model based on the system of government and models of local government and territorial organization). The aim of this paper is to provide a more thorough view on public administration in the EU-28 countries and to assess the selected comparative approaches and the financial dimension according to the levels of public administration. Evaluation of the selected indicators of financial dimension of public administration was carried out using the method of analysis, whose outcomes confirmed the most notable differences between the EU-28 countries in the first and third cluster in fiscal decentralization of expenditure and in total general government expenditure.