in Asia.
It was found that the principal areas of public sector management reform were: (1) inistitutional changes required for macro-economic and financial management (found in all 59 SALs); (2) non- financial sectoral institutional reforms (present in 56 SALs); (3) trade policy and administration reforms (present in 50 SALs); and (4) public administration reforms (found in 31 SALs).