Public Sector Reforms and National Development in Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the link between public sector reforms and national development in Nigeria and it argued that the adoption as well as the neo-liberal economic reforms in a developing economy like Nigeria usually underdevelops than it develops the people. Accordingly, the study argued or noted that the practice of the neo-liberal economic principles and policy prescriptions in the process of restructuring the public domain (public sector or public service) in the country as evidenced in the so-called down-sizing and right-sizing of the public service accounts for the swelling rate of unemployment and poverty in the country. And as such it fails to advance the economy towards the desired end. To this end, the study posited that future reforms in the public sector should be well focused in order for them to stimulate the needed development of the economy