Development management refers to the application of administrative knowledge, managerial techniques, public policies, and institutional mechanisms for achieving planned socio-economic development. Within Comparative Public Administration (CPA), it emerged as a significant concept during the post-Second World War period when newly independent nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America faced the challenge of accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty, and modernizing their administrative systems. Unlike traditional public administration, which primarily emphasized maintaining law and order and implementing routine governmental functions, development management focuses on promoting change, innovation, social justice, and economic transformation. The concept gained prominence through the contributions of scholars such as Fred W. Riggs, Edward Weidner, and Dwight Waldo, who argued that administration in developing countries should not merely imitate Western bureaucratic models but should adapt to local social, political, economic, and cultural conditions. Development management therefore stresses the relationship between administration and national development, making public administration an active instrument of planned change. A central feature of development management is its goal-oriented nature. It seeks to achieve clearly defined developmental objectives such as economic growth, employment generation, agricultural development, industrialization, infrastructure expansion, education, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and social welfare. Administrative agencies are expected to act proactively rather than simply perform regulatory or routine functions. Another important characteristic is the integration