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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Public Sector Management and Economic Governance Revisited.- Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing Neoliberal Good Governance'' Discourse and the Complexity of Global Self policing.- Chapter 3. Ghana's Policy Elites and Engagement of the IMF under the Fourth Republic: Elite Agency, Compliance, or a Mixed Bag?.- Chapter 4. Transforming Ghana's Economy: Where are we from? Where are we now? What more needs to be done?.- Chapter 5. The Contributions of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation towards Sustainability Efforts in Upstream Oil and Gas Operations in Ghana.- Chapter 6. Y? Te Sika So Nanso ?k?m Di Y?n: The Case of Ghana's Poverty Amid Abundant Oil Resources and Revenues.- Chapter 7. The Legon Tradition of African Philosophy (TLTAP) and Contemporary Public Administration Theory (CPAT): the Case for Dialogic Engagement for a New African Public Administration.- Chapter 8. The Audit Service as a Supreme Audit Institution in Ghana's Fourth Republic: An Assessment.- Chapter 9. Reforming the Police Service for Effective Policing in Ghana's Fourth Republic.- Chapter 10. Notes on the Position of Chief of Staff at the Presidency in Ghana's Fourth Republic.- Chapter 11. The Phenomenon of Special Assistants as Gatekeepers and their Impact on the Performance of Bureaucrats in the Ghanaian Civil Service.- Chapter 12. Balancing the Decentralization Scale in Ghana to Promote Political Decentralization: A Perspective on Local Government Election in the Fourth Republic.- Chapter 13. Rural Development in Ghana.- Chapter 14. Ghana's Foreign Policy in the Fourth Republic: Trends, Complexities and Future Implications.- Chapter 15. Conclusion: Ghana in the Next Thirty Years: The Public Sector, Economic Governance, and International Relations.
