Towards Good Governance in South-Asia: An Introduction                 7

Juha Vartola, Ismo Lumijärvi, Mohammed Asaduzzaman

Governance and Development Discourse in Bangladesh:                    19

A Diagnostic Assessment of Challenges and Concerns

Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman

Problems and Prospects of Good Governance in Bangladesh              41

Ahmed Shafiqul Huque 

Integrated Governance in Sri Lanka: A Conceptual Myth or               65

a Practical Reality?

Ramanie Samaratunge, Ken Coghill

Policy and Politics of Preference: The Quota System in the                 85

Bangladesh Civil Service1

Habib M. Zafarullah

Decentralization in Nepal and Adoption of Citizen Charter for         105

Improving Service Delivery in Municipalities in Nepal

Tek Nath Dhaka

Of Bureaucracy as Circus Ringmasters in Administrative                  129

Reforms: Notes on India

Amita Singh

Public Service Accessibility to Indigenous Community:                   143

A Case of Santhal Community in Nepal

Shree Krishna Shrestha

Decentralization and New Public Management:                                  161

An analysis in Bangladesh and Nepal Professor Juha

Vartola, Professor Ismo Lumijärvi

Dr. Mohammed Asaduzzaman

Governance in Administration and Judiciary in Bangladesh             187

Mohammad Mohabbat Khan

Multi-Level Education Policy Governance in Sri Lanka:                   199

Prospects and Challenges

Renuka Priyantha

Local Government Reforms in Bangladesh:

Hazy Policy Landscape                                                                         225

Mohammad Habibur Rahman

The Changing Role of Government: Reform of Public                       241

Sector Undertakings (PSUs)

Shipra Bhatia

Decentralisation Reform and People’s Participation:                          271

Empirical Observations from the Philippines

Risako ISHII and Farhad HOSSAIN

Analyzing Parliamentary Election of 2008 in                                      291

Bangladesh and its Aftermath

shtiaq Jamil, PhD, Pranab Kumar Panday, PhD

Author’s biography