Public sector reform in Lesotho: Challenges‚ achievements and the way forward ABSTRACT THE GOVERNMENT OF LESOTHO EMBARKED UPON A LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM EXERCISE FROM THE EARLY 1990S (PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME-PSRIP). IT WAS DRIVEN BY THE REALISATION THAT THE PUBLIC SECTOR WAS BLOATED‚ INEFFICIENT WITH REGARD TO POOR SERVICE DELIVERY‚ WITH CORRUPTION CONSTITUTING A DRAIN ON BUDGET. THE INFLUENCE AND ‘PERSUASION’ OF THE WORLD BANK‚ THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
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INTRODUCTION 1. Public enterprises are neither new nor unique to India. In good old days‚ Kautilya in his ‘Arthasastra’ talked of a public sector. A person was made incharge of salt manufacture and fixing its price. Similarily there were people made responsible for mining‚ coinage and gold‚ all in public sector. Nowadays there is hardly any country that is not engaged actively and directly in the management of economic and industrial enterprises. Various names given to these enterprises are ‘Public Sector
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RATIONALIZING PUBLIC SECTOR COMPENSATION JULY 2009 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. RATIONALIZING PUBLIC SECTOR COMPENSATION Management Systems International Corporate Offices 600 Water Street‚ SW Washington‚ DC 20024 Contracted under Agreement No. 6043-001-53-14 Philippines National Budget Monitoring Project This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States
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transportation‚ industrial and commercial economic sectors as defined by EPA’s Inventory of Sierra Leone Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks. The affected sectors represent approximately 85% of the overall Sierra Leone emissions for the year 2010. The bill also would provide for the trading of emissions allowances and reductions through the government provided greenhouse gas database which would contain an inventory of emissions and registry of reductions. Discuss the rationale for this type of legislation
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Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector Linda Howerton PHI 103 Informal Logic Instructor: Ms. Tanya Martin October 22‚ 2012 Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector Union membership is today at an all time low. It has been steadily declining since the 1980’s. Private sector union membership has been affected the most‚ while that of the public sector has remained relatively strong (Devinatz‚ 2011 Spring). Public worker unions‚ especially state
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Both the public sector and the private sector depend on each other to operate efficiently and to serve the interest of the general populace.They therefore work hand in hand to the good of the society. The distinction between public and private can be seen as one of the “grand dichotomies” of Western thought (Weintraub‚ 1997: 1). It is also a dichotomy that dominates the field of public administration where it is mostly defined as a binary distinction between the realm
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Should the public sector be privatized? Replies: Posted By: meenakshisekar Yes of course privatization of public sectors leads to some healthy changes in an org. b’s when you take public sectors u can find some slackness (or a little bit) delay in their services. But in case of private since service is there first and foremost duty they act rapidly. Posted By: ssrkraju Hi All‚ Privatization of public sector. Lot depends of which sector we are talking about. Let me clarify few doubts
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Models of Organized Crime Bureaucratic organizations To begin the analysis of this type of organization is convenient to define bureaucracy as a direction system based on rules and procedures. This definition identifies the advantages of this type of organization‚ such as the safety‚ stability and the coherence‚ but also derived from the same advantages‚ disadvantages are pointed out such as rigidity‚ lack of motivation and resulting cumbersome administration. Its origin is based on the
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Managing in the Public and Private sector Long Essay Alex Francis = 33353645 National Health Service Introduction History of NHS The NHS was born 65 years ago on the 5th of July 1948. It came from a long held idea from a man called Aneurin Bevan who was the minister of health in Britain at the time. He believed that health care should be widely accessible to anyone regardless their colour‚ condition and most importantly their wealth. The NHS has grown to be one of the world’s most publicly funded
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bureaucratic VS The structure of the organization alone is not sufficient for the efficiency of the organization‚ the manpower of the organization employed in that structure also have an equally important part to play. In the absence of efficient and specialized personnel‚ even the effective structure power is a failure. Therefore public administration places a great deal of importance to the study of personnel management. There are different types of personnel systems being practiced by different
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