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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Korporacja: International Monetary Fund
Format: Czasopismo
Język:English
Wydane: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Seria:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/164
Dostęp online:Full text available on IMF
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