The advocates of these ideas were calling for a distinct from of administration according to which the primary responsibility of government in a developing country is actively to lead, stimulate and centrally coordinate the country’s total development endeavor. ( this distinct from of administration, hereafter referred to as the theory of development administration, will be further described in a subsequent section of this essay ). In more recent literature, the conception of development administration being regarded as a distinct from of administration for developing countries appears to have lost its meaning