Structure

Weak Vigilance System: Despite getting low ratings from the Transparency 
International in terms of public integrity, administrative system in developing 
countries continue to suffer from the malaise of corruption. The vigilance 
machinery in these countries needs to be strengthened. Moreover, the legal and 
the judicial systems need to be more effective in curbing bribery and unethical 
conduct in public life. Development administration can grow in an environment 
of probity and transparency. This would also require a change in the outlook of 
bureaucrats. Fred Riggs finds in developing countries a “preference among 
bureaucrats for personal expediency as against public-principled interest”. This 
preference needs to be reversed through proper control mechanisms and training. 
Administrative Development: In all developing nations, a movement of 
administrative development has gained momentum. There has been a great stress 
on transforming the structures, processes and behavioural patterns of the 
administrative system. This is what has been termed as “administrative 
development”, which focuses on enhancing the capabilities of the administrative 
systems to facilitate the achievement of progressive political, economic and 
socio-cultural goals that it is expected and designed to achieve. 
4.5 ACTIVITY 
1. Elaborate the major features of development administration in the developed 
nations. Mention some such characteristics of these countries, which are 
being imbibed by your country’s administration. 
2. Suggest ways to bring improvements in developing countries’ 
administration. 
4.6 CONCLUSION 
Developed nations are decades and, in a few cases, centuries ahead of developing 
nations. Yet both of them have to evolve goal-oriented administrative systems. 
Depending on the political stability and the level of socio-economic development 
of a particular category of nations, the progressiveness of these goals, will vary. 
And within the same category of nations, the goals to be achieved by their 
respective administrative systems will differ in nature and intensity. In all cases, 
the success of a society in achieving its goals of development will depend upon 
the competence, performance and attitude of its administrative system. All 
administrative systems need to be change-oriented, goal-oriented, progressive, 
efficient, decentralised, responsive and motivated. These features create a 
confluence between the development administrative systems of the rich and the 
poor nations.