Developing Countries and New Public Management IntroductionThe expectation that government will improve in business is becoming a hot topic for many countries around the world. Countries are trying to push their efforts to produce the best performance in public sector management. There are many frameworks of government enterprise theory, or even practice, that could be used by government to produce a better quality of public governance. One of the methods is new public management. The basic idea of ​​the new public management is to adopt the business process of the private sector. New public management, in theory, provides a set of views on how government should function, emphasizing efficiency, responsiveness, accountability and transparency (Gow and Dufour, 2000, 578; Sarker, 2006: 180). It seems that the new idea of ​​public management is very useful in reducing the problems that many governments face, such as poor policies, insensitive bureaucracies, poor management processes, and focusing on input and output outcomes rather than outcomes. Regardless, new public management is very useful in theory, but in reality, most countries struggle a lot to implement it and find themselves in the middle of nowhere (Manning, 2001: 300). The fact is that the new model of public administration, in some ways, is probably not suitable for most governments in their business. This case does not only concern developing countries, but also developed countries. Perhaps, to some extent, there is an example of a country that can follow the nature of new public management. New Zealand is one of the countries that have been successful in implementing the concept of new public management (Schick, 1998: 123 – 131; M...... half of the document ......Journal Of Research And Theory , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 121 – 132.Sarker, A.E., 2006, “New public management in developing countries: an analysis of success and failure with particular reference to Singapore and Bangladesh", International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 180 – 203.Schick, A., 1998, "Why most developing countries should not attempt reforms in New Zealand", The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 13, no. 123 – 131.Turner, M., 2002, 'Choosing items from the menu, new public management in Southeast Asia', International Journal of Public Administration, vol 25, no. 1493 – 1512.Villanueva, LA,. 2011, Public Governance For Results: A Conceptual And Operational Framework, tenth committee session Expert Panel on Public Administration 2011, United Nations Economic and Social Council, New York, 4 – 8 April 2011, pp. 1 – 17.