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Author | : Mr.Ian Lienert |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1997-12-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 145185899X |
Download A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This paper assesses a decade of experience in civil service reform in a sample of 32 sub-Saharan African countries. Many countries have made an important start towards reducing excessive staffing levels and the nominal wage bill, but less progress has been made in decompressing salary differentials in favor of higher-grade staff. In the CFA franc zone countries, real wages fell sharply after the 1994 devaluation, but the wage bill relative to tax revenue is still high in many countries. There is a need to consolidate quantitative first-generation reforms that contribute to macroeconomic stabilization. Equally important is the need to make progress on qualitative second-generation reforms, especially remuneration and promotion policies that reward performance and measures to improve civil service management. Such policies will require strong political commitment by governments.
Author | : Mamadou Dia |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821326305 |
Download A Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Inefficient civil service administrations are jeopardizing future development in many African countries. The reforms suggested in this paper would make these administrations more accountable, enforce the rule of law, and reward bureaucrats solely on their
Author | : Peter de Haan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : International Workshop on Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: International Workshop on Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mamadou Dia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Making Government an Effective Partner Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The paper previewed in this article focuses on the implementation of a long-term capacity building approach to civil service reform. It starts with a review of past World Bank support to civil service reform and confirms that the cost containment approach achieved neither fiscal stabilization nor efficiency objectives despite heavy political and social costs. The rather disappointing results are traced to the patrimonial character of the state whose features in the civil service context are: recruitment based on subjective and ascriptive criteria; public employment managed as a welfare system; pay levels that are unrelated to productivity; loyalty of officials to the person of the ruler rather than to the state; and formalism of administrative rules and procedures rather than the substance. The paper argues that the direction of improvement lies in improved governance; a broader approach to civil service reform. Improving governance would begin with an assessment of the institutional environment which determines the patrimonial profile of the country: high when all of these factors are absent, low when they are present. This would be followed by the adoption of a strategy for reform that could be a comprehensive approach, an enclave approach or a hybrid approach, depending on whether the country's patrimonial profile is high, low or average, respectively.
Author | : 'Ladipo Adamolekun |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780821339107 |
Download Civil Service Reform in Francophone Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The world's financial markets are rapidly integrating into a single global marketplace, and developing countries are being drawn into this process starting from different points and moving at various speeds. Those with adequate institutions and sound policies in place may proceed smoothly along the road toward financial integration and gain the many benefits that integration can bring. Most of the developing economies lack many of the necesssary prerequisites for such a move; a few are so unprepared that integration may do them more harm than good. Developing countries may have little choice about whether to follow this path'advances in communications and new developments in finance have made the course inevitable'but they may still choose the ways in which they proceed, choosing the policies that benefit the economy and averting potential shocks. This World Bank report looks at the important challenges both sets of countries face in a new age of global capital. The book presents new and compelling evidence that, while low interest rates in industrial countries provided an initial impetus to the surge in private capital flows during 1989-93, these flows have entered a new phase, driven by increased financial integration . The report analyzes the causes and effects of integration, with a particular emphasis on how developing countries in the nascent stages of integration can learn from the experiences of the more rapidly integrating developing countries.
Author | : Joseph R. A. Ayee |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
ISBN | : 2869782144 |
Download Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospectsis an in-depth and wide-ranging review of the available literature on African public sector reforms. It illustrates several differing country experiences to buttress the main observations and conclusions. It adopts a structural/institutional approach which underpins most of the reform efforts on the continent. To contextualize reform of the public sector and understand its processes, dynamics and intricacies, the book examines the state and state capacity building in Africa, especially when there can be no state without an efficient public sector. In addition, the book addresses a number of theories such as the new institutional economics, public choice and new public management, which have in one way or another influenced most of the initiatives implemented under public sector reform in Africa. There is also a survey of the three phases of public sector reform which have emerged and the balance sheet of reform strategies, namely, decentralization, privatization, deregulation, agencification, co-production and public-private partnerships. It concludes by identifying possible alternative approaches such as developing a vigorous public sector ethos and sustained capacity building to promote and enhance the renewal and reconstruction of the African public sector within the context of the New Partnerships for Africa's Development (NEPAD), good governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Author | : K. Bayliss |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2007-11-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230286410 |
Download Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
it is increasingly apparent that the privatization experiment in sub-Saharan Africa has failed. This book shows that the state is set to dominate service delivery for the foreseeable future in much of the region, and that the public sector must be considered as a viable policy option for the delivery of water and electricity.
Author | : Paulos Chanie |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9970252321 |
Download Thirty Years of Public Sector Reforms in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the past three decades, African countries have been reforming their public sector with a view to improving efficiency, effectiveness, accountability and transparency as part of efforts to improve the delivery of public services. Reform actions have included privatisation, public/private partnerships, commercialisation and adoption of private sector approaches in managing public organisations. This book, put together by OSSREA, reviews measures by African countries in that regard, the extent to which the measures have achieved their intended results, as well as the factors behind the failure to achieve those results, where this was the case.
Author | : International Monetary Fund |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1998-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1451980248 |
Download The Quality of Governance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This paper argues that the development of human capital in the public sector should be an important ingredient in any proposed set of “second-generation” reforms for Africa. In the post-colonial era the quality of governance has seriously declined, and the stock of human capital in the public sector has been eroded by a flight of human capital from many countries in response to compression of wages. The paper develops a simple theoretical framework to discuss these issues and the continent’s experience with foreign technical assistance in supplementing the low level of domestic human capital.