Introduction

Abstract

This book attempts to analyze sub-Saharan African development challenges with an insight into Rwanda’s post genocide experience from 1994 to 2007. The challenges include the introduction of Public Sector Reform (PSR) programs that were initiated more than a decade ago, and this book gives a specific case study of Rwanda’s own experience that could be shared by other countries emerging from conflict to development. The book takes into account various externally driven forces, including globalization, which has forced a reinvention of the relationship between the public and private sectors (Grundberg 1998, 591–605).

Today’s development economics is like eighteenth century medicine … when impoverished countries have pledged [for help, the main] prescription has been budgetary tightening for patients much too poor to own our belts.

—Jeffrey Sachs, 2005