The Quality of Governance : 'Second-Generation' Civil Service Reform in Africa.

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 pub...

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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/164
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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Riassunto: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.
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